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Terminal text invisible on macOS safari

See original GitHub issue

OS/Web Information

Web Browser: Safari v15.1
Local OS: macOS 12.0.1
Remote OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Running through codercom/code-server image)
Remote Architecture: aarch64
code-server --version: 3.12.0 2661a690ac228872e8d1dc28ab6d33e8afc30add

Steps to Reproduce

Boot up an instance
Log into instance in browser
Open terminal

Expected

The text should actually be visible.

Actual

Text is being written to the terminal, they just appear invisible for some reason. I have caught very short glimpses of the text showing (maybe a second) and then it immediately disappears. Commands still go through however, its working its just invisible.

It shows in Brave, however its really weird and unclear. It works fine on Safari on the iPad.

Logs

Screenshot

Notes

This issue can be reproduced in VS Code: No

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:14 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

zp4rkercommented, Nov 2, 2021

It appears to be a WebGL rendering issue, surprisingly enabling the Experimental Feature > WebGL 2.0 actually causes it to not display but disabling that feature fixes it. Hopefully Apple fixes up their WebGL game.

5reactions

code-ashercommented, Nov 2, 2021

Here is the latest: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/a4906e7a1517d077c2c5dba78d87f8e09b20f35a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/xterm/xtermTerminal.ts#L176

While on v3.12.0 ours looks like:

https://github.com/cdr/vscode/blob/1.60.0-code-server-patch/src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminal/browser/terminalInstance.ts#L1517

I think I originally found this by searching xterm issues for webgl:

https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/search?q=webgl+safari&type=issues

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