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Blank terminal windows pop up

“In the native Windows environment, when Codex executes commands, a blank Windows Terminal window briefly pops up.”

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Blank terminal windows pop up during Windows sandbox setup refresh. Visible Windows Terminal windows appear when Codex starts or executes commands while codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe refreshes the sandbox.

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Where
Windows sandbox
Error text
[error 2147942632 (0x800700e8) when launching '']
Versions
0.157.0 to 0.157.1
Platforms
Windows
How bad
Cosmetic: looks wrong, still works.

Part of: Windows console window popups11 bugs

  1. Console windows pop up308 people
  2. Blank console windows open44 people
  3. Git console error windows4 people
  4. Agent tasks spawn terminal windows2 people
  5. Console windows flash on shell calls10 people
  6. Console windows flash on Windows16 people
  7. Console windows flash6 people
  8. Terminal window flashes on commands15 people
  9. PowerShell windows and paste failure8 people
  10. Terminal windows keep spawning4 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. A blank terminal window pops up when executing commands in Windows, suspected to be triggered by the sandbox initialization helper program.On GitHub#48406
  2. Codex CLI 0.157.0 spawns blank Windows Terminal windows during sandbox setup refreshOn GitHub#48120

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