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[FEATURE]: Small screen compatibility #3547
Description
Feature hasn't been suggested before.
- I have verified this feature I'm about to request hasn't been suggested before.
Describe the enhancement you want to request
As a developer I would like to use OpenCode from inside the VSCode build-in terminal, in order to avoid excessive context switching. VSCode is essential part of my workflow, to review the changes made by the ai.
Current Behavior (available terminal height of 10 lines):
- On Welcome screen:
- From top to bottom, only the big OpenCode logo and two of the help lines /new, /help are visible.
- The user input is not visible.
- I can still type my request blindly, press enter, and it works (it's just a visual bug).
- On Chat screen:
- header has an empty padding line above
- chat output is not visible at all
- The user input occupies three lines, plus one more for model info, plus another one as empty spacer below
- footer is not visible (good)
Expected Behavior:
- User input field should be visible on Welcome screen.
- Chat output should be visible on Chat screen.
- The Ui may collapse gracefully, hiding less important elements, or replacing them by smaller variants.
Notes:
- Small height is much more important than small width.
- Request is about usage on a 14 inch notebook which has 1280x800 effective pixels.
- Increasing terminal height would cut into the actual VsCode diff view.
- 'Typical' terminal applications like bash, vim or tmux work are perfectly useable under the same conditions.
Activity
github-actions commentedon Oct 29, 2025
This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:
Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.
rekram1-node commentedon Oct 29, 2025
we are currently rewriting the tui and it may better address some of this, feel free to try it (still a wip):
bun x opencode-ai@opentuitnglemongrass commentedon Oct 29, 2025
Thanks, will try it!
fix(tui): hide logo and adjust layout for small terminals
ratacat commentedon Feb 1, 2026
Just a note: the suggested
bun x opencode-ai@opentuitag no longer resolves ("Package opencode-ai with tag opentui not found").Adding another use case here: when using OpenCode in a small/split terminal window, both the header bar and input bar take up a disproportionate amount of vertical space. A config option like
tui.compact_mode: trueor granulartui.header_height/tui.input_heightsettings would be very helpful for constrained environments.Currently the only TUI config options are scroll-related (
scroll_speed,scroll_acceleration,diff_style) - nothing for layout/sizing.github-actions commentedon Apr 3, 2026
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