TUI duplicates last assistant message + footer in scrollback on long replies
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 27, 2026 by moralex777 Closed Apr 27, 2026
Environment
- Claude Code: 2.1.119
- Model: Opus 4.7 (1M context)
- Terminal: xfce4-terminal
$TERM:xterm-256color- OS: Linux 6.8.0-107-generic (Ubuntu)
- Shell: bash
Description
After a long assistant reply (200+ lines) completes, the entire last block — assistant message body, ※ recap line, divider, ❯ prompt, and status footer (token counter, mode banner, statusLine) — appears 2-3 times consecutively in scrollback. Sometimes the session start banner also re-renders. Reviewing past output is painful because the same content scrolls past 2-3x.
Repro
- Launch
claudein xfce4-terminal. - Send a prompt that produces 300+ lines of output (e.g., "read settings.json and summarize every top-level key in 2-3 sentences each").
- After completion, scroll back through scrollback.
- Expected: each block appears exactly once.
- Actual: the last assistant block + footer (and sometimes session banner) appears 2-3x in succession.
Already ruled out
- Custom
statusLine(bash …/statusline-venture-git.sh) — replaced withecho 'Claude | alex', duplication still occurs. - Cached statusLine wrapper (10s TTL) — duplication still occurs.
- Stop / PostToolUse hooks — none of the configured hooks emit the duplicated content (verified by grep).
Hypothesis
TUI re-paints the static "below-the-fold" footer when terminal viewport reflows, and previous frames leak into scrollback instead of being cleared. Possibly an Ink/React render issue interacting with xfce4-terminal's alt-screen handling.
Pasted scrollback example available on request.
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