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desktop: switching language from Arabic (RTL) to English leaves overlapping, unusable controls in 2.1.4 #58532
Description
Summary
On OpenCode Desktop 2.1.4 (Windows x64, latest channel), switching the app language from Arabic (RTL) to English leaves controls overlapping each other and unusable — buttons render on top of one another and stop responding.
Environment
- opencode version: 2.1.4 (OpenCode Desktop, official updater — latest channel)
- OS: Windows 11 (Windows_NT 10.0.26300, win32 x64)
- Terminal: OpenCode Desktop (Electron renderer)
- Shell: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
- Install/channel: desktop installer, latest channel
- Active plugins: none found in config
Reproduction
- Set the app language to Arabic (RTL layout) in settings
- Switch the app language to English
- Buttons/controls overlap each other and become unusable
Expected Behavior
The layout fully reflows to LTR and all controls are usable after the switch.
Actual Behavior
Controls remain overlapped and non-functional. A new session view can render blank.
Additional Context
- Workarounds tried, did not help: quit app, cleared all Chromium caches (
Cache,Code Cache,GPUCache,GrShaderCache,GPUPersistentGrShaderCache,DawnGraphiteCache,DawnWebGPUCache,blob_storage,Network) under%APPDATA%\ai.opencode.desktop, plus%LOCALAPPDATA%\@opencodedesktop-updater, and restarted. - Related existing issues: [Bug]: Titlebar buttons overlap with Windows native controls on RTL locales #37779 (titlebar overlap on RTL locales, closed), Arabic RTL text alignment issue - buttons misaligned #38109 (Arabic RTL alignment, closed) and the RTL fix in commit de1bd36. The symptom appears to persist/re-appear in 2.1.4 when switching RTL → LTR while the app is running.
- Issue is consistently reproducible on this machine.
Activity
opencode-agent commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Thanks for the detailed report. I tried to reproduce this, but it happens in the Windows desktop app and I can't run that in my environment, so a maintainer with the desktop app will need to check it.
To help them, could you share:
Related earlier reports, which were fixed: #37779 (titlebar overlap with right-to-left languages) and #38109 (Arabic right-to-left alignment).
ahmadsbeh commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Answers to your questions from our environment (Windows 11 x64, Desktop 2.1.4, latest channel):
Screenshot attached below (
overlap.png): the titlebar controls (menu, split view, new-tab) render stacked on top of each other in the top-left corner, and the session view renders blank. Red annotation added to mark the overlapping controls.Persistence after full restart: yes — the problem persists after fully quitting the app (including any tray instance) and relaunching with English already selected. The controls come up overlapped right from first paint.
Extensions / direction toggle: no desktop extensions are enabled, and the extension debug bar's direction toggle has never been used. Verified by inspecting
%APPDATA%\ai.opencode.desktopfor extension/plugin/debug folders — none exist.Happy to run any build with a suspected fix if useful.