Powerline install messed up? Weird corruption while CC is thinking

[barrettj]

Mine spends about half the time looking like this, it's usually while thinking, but especially while agents are running. I'm using Ghostty and I thought I had everything configured, but I don't really know and CC is stumped and searching the issues I couldn't find anything.

[barrettj]

If it's not obvious, the triangles should actually be the color of the group before and some of the fonts are randomly not bolded

notice only the 8 in the cost is bold

[sirmalloc]

@barrettj Do you by chance have background-opacity-cells = true in your ghostty config? I can reproduce this issue only if that configuration option is set. If background-opacity-cells is on, then the background of the previous group will have the opacity applied to it, but the foreground of the powerline arrow will not have the same opacity, resulting in what you are seeing.

[barrettj]

No, I don't have background-opacity-cells in my Ghostty config. My config only contains: font-family = "MesloLGS Nerd Font" (Which was what claude suggested after the other power line font installed by ccstatusline also had the issue, I assumed I was on the wrong font)

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On Feb 4, 2026, at 12:09 AM, Matthew Breedlove ***@***.***> wrote: sirmalloc left a comment (sirmalloc/ccstatusline#162) <#162 (comment)> @barrettj <https://github.com/barrettj> Do you by chance have background-opacity-cells = true in your ghostty config? I can reproduce this issue only if that configuration option is set. If background-opacity-cells is on, then the background of the previous group will have the opacity applied to it, but the foreground of the powerline arrow will not have the same opacity, resulting in what you are seeing. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#162 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACYJI7BHRVWBCPT5NBMKR34KGELLAVCNFSM6AAAAACT46LXN2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTQNBVGU2TQMJZHE>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

[sirmalloc]

So just to confirm, you're on GhosTTY 1.2.3 on macOS with just the one config line in the GhosTTY config? Are you on the latest Claude Code 2.1.31? Would you mind sending me your `~/.config/ccstatusline/settings.json` so I can try to replicate your setup exactly?

[barrettj]

Correct, 1.2.3 on 26.3 beta and 3.1.31 Claude Code. My setup is pretty vanilla I would think. I thought I figured out that I was using the wrong ghosty config file (I had claude set that up for me and it used the wrong path apparently, but that didn’t seem to fix it). { "version": 3, "lines": [ [ { "id": "1", "type": "model", "color": "cyan", "rawValue": true }, { "id": "3", "type": "context-percentage-usable", "color": "brightBlack", "rawValue": true, "metadata": { "inverse": "true" } }, { "id": "d3c7cbde-0bce-493d-9522-609048b185cb", "type": "tokens-input" }, { "id": "5", "type": "tokens-output", "color": "magenta" }, { "id": "7", "type": "tokens-cached", "color": "yellow" }, { "id": "178c71bc-5d13-45a2-8783-77d8a3742b06", "type": "tokens-total", "backgroundColor": "bgYellow", "rawValue": false }, { "id": "155383cc-ca33-49ab-8fb1-dc02ffa25cf9", "type": "session-clock", "rawValue": true }, { "id": "b4f6d198-7af8-44f7-b84c-7305543a38be", "type": "session-cost", "rawValue": true }, { "id": "fa7cc07a-26bf-453d-bcaf-d7e55e7ed1d6", "type": "version" } ], [ { "id": "0ea6f8d0-0b8d-413e-8e05-dc35cda04862", "type": "current-working-dir", "metadata": { "fishStyle": "true" } }, { "id": "20373537-58d0-4070-bef7-55b7153dfb56", "type": "git-worktree", "backgroundColor": "bgBrightGreen" }, { "id": "96d71711-70d0-4340-986f-d1345ffe4465", "type": "git-branch", "backgroundColor": "bgBrightRed" }, { "id": "57537113-6816-437f-b164-bf137ebc341c", "type": "git-changes", "backgroundColor": "bgBrightBlack" } ], [] ], "flexMode": "full-until-compact", "compactThreshold": 60, "colorLevel": 3, "defaultPadding": " ", "inheritSeparatorColors": false, "globalBold": true, "powerline": { "enabled": true, "separators": [ "" ], "separatorInvertBackground": [ false ], "startCaps": [], "endCaps": [], "theme": "solarized", "autoAlign": false } }

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On Feb 4, 2026, at 2:00 PM, Matthew Breedlove ***@***.***> wrote: sirmalloc left a comment (sirmalloc/ccstatusline#162) <#162 (comment)>So just to confirm, you're on GhosTTY 1.2.3 on macOS with just the one config line in the GhosTTY config? Are you on the latest Claude Code 2.1.31? Would you mind sending me your `~/.config/ccstatusline/settings.json` so I can try to replicate your setup exactly? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#162 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACYJIZND6KQ3N52LXGJFW34KJFV5AVCNFSM6AAAAACT46LXN2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTQNBZGI3DEMBXGI>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

[barrettj]

Also it mostly happens when using agents, which is my primary workflow, it seems to not happen often when I don't. The fastest way for me to test if it will happen is say "open at least 5 agents and explore my codebase for improvements"

[barrettj]

It also seems to happen during "task creation", it got progressively worse as it was adding each task - the first just made the text slightly dimmer, the next dimmer, then the triangles started fading, then the weird bold stuff.