gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Bug] Usage of ctrl+o option to expand panels with code or execution logs results in blinking empty terminal screen which refreshes once several seconds [1 participants]

What happened?

After some work is done and terminal has accumulated some history any attempt to use ctrl+o command to expand i.e. proposed by agent code changes before use of tools results in empty terminal screen which after longer or shorter time appears again and sometimes blinks several times. Any user action - using arrows to move selection over menu choice causes all content to disappear again and return after some, often quite long time. Another problem is that trying to read content just above top terminal border by scrolling causes again the same. Than quite often and repeatedly cursor scrolls to the top of conversation - after couple of hours of work its quite far away - and user has to manually scroll down to the last position. I don't have to add that this behavior makes some cli features unusable.

What did you expect to happen?

Just to work without incidents.

Client information

Run gemini to enter the interactive CLI, then run the /about command.

Client information

CLI Version: 0.39.0
Git Commit: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/commit/398f78dcaa8fd2396684add19933916f7b87d349
Session ID: 6df14344-1210-4a6d-81cd-4355a0318e6c
Operating System: win32 v2 5.9.0
Sandbox Environment: no sandbox
Model Version: gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Auth Type: oauth-personal
Memory Usage: 393.5 MB
Terminal Name: Unknown
Terminal Background: #0c0 c0c
Kitty Keyboard Protocol: Unsupported

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