From eb80614a7c6a83abb7f03e5cb45f98d0b75ff343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ed Bayes <eb@openai.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 00:46:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Tint chat composer background (#1921)

## Summary
- give the chat composer a subtle custom background and apply it across
the full area drawn

<img width="1008" height="718" alt="composer-bg"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4b0f7f69-722a-438a-b4e9-0165ae8865a6"
/>

- update turn interrupted to be more human readable
<img width="648" height="170" alt="CleanShot 2025-08-06 at 22 44 47@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8d35e53a-bbfa-48e7-8612-c280a54e01dd"
/>

## Testing
- `cargo test --all-features` *(fails: `let` expressions in
`core/src/client.rs` require newer rustc)*
- `just fix` *(fails: `let` expressions in `core/src/client.rs` require
newer rustc)*

------
https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_i_68941f32c1008322bbcc39ee1d29a526
---
 codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs                    | 2 +-
 codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs | 6 ++++++
 codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs              | 6 ++----
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs b/codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs
index 4a4faa84..eb1bc4f9 100644
--- a/codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/core/src/codex.rs
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ impl AgentTask {
             let event = Event {
                 id: self.sub_id,
                 msg: EventMsg::Error(ErrorEvent {
-                    message: "Turn interrupted".to_string(),
+                    message: " Turn interrupted".to_string(),
                 }),
             };
             let tx_event = self.sess.tx_event.clone();
diff --git a/codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs b/codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs
index ea3a4edd..e53fe036 100644
--- a/codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/tui/src/bottom_pane/chat_composer.rs
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ const BASE_PLACEHOLDER_TEXT: &str = "...";
 /// If the pasted content exceeds this number of characters, replace it with a
 /// placeholder in the UI.
 const LARGE_PASTE_CHAR_THRESHOLD: usize = 1000;
+/// Background color used for the chat composer area.
+const COMPOSER_BG_COLOR: Color = Color::Black;
 
 /// Result returned when the user interacts with the text area.
 pub enum InputResult {
@@ -735,6 +737,10 @@ impl WidgetRef for &ChatComposer {
         let mut textarea_rect = textarea_rect;
         textarea_rect.width = textarea_rect.width.saturating_sub(1);
         textarea_rect.x += 1;
+
+        // Fill only the textarea content region with a subtle background so it
+        // doesn't affect the hint line or popups and remains behind the text.
+        buf.set_style(textarea_rect, Style::default().bg(COMPOSER_BG_COLOR));
         let mut state = self.textarea_state.borrow_mut();
         StatefulWidgetRef::render_ref(&(&self.textarea), textarea_rect, buf, &mut state);
         if self.textarea.text().is_empty() {
diff --git a/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs b/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs
index be96a9e9..8df5340f 100644
--- a/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/tui/src/history_cell.rs
@@ -504,10 +504,8 @@ impl HistoryCell {
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn new_error_event(message: String) -> Self {
-        let lines: Vec<Line<'static>> = vec![
-            vec!["ERROR: ".red().bold(), message.into()].into(),
-            "".into(),
-        ];
+        let lines: Vec<Line<'static>> =
+            vec![vec!["🖐 ".red().bold(), message.into()].into(), "".into()];
         HistoryCell::ErrorEvent {
             view: TextBlock::new(lines),
         }