gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix Synchronous clipboard reading blocks the main UI thread [1 comments, 2 participants]

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google-gemini/gemini-cli#26800Fetched 2026-05-11 03:28:02
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What happened?

InputPrompt calls clipboardy.read() synchronously during paste handling. For large clipboards, this can cause the entire CLI to hang until the read operation completes.

What did you expect to happen?

Clipboard operations should be performed asynchronously or in a way that doesn't block the React/Ink render loop.

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OS: linux Date: Sunday, May 10, 2026 Gemini CLI: 0.42.0-nightly

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File: packages/cli/src/ui/components/InputPrompt.tsx:660. Impacts performance with large texts or images in the clipboard.

Severity: Medium Area: area/core

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