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🐞 Changing terminal font size in settings does not have immediate effect

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue through Settings → Terminal with “Use text editor font” disabled, then trace the terminal settings and font-update path in the Swift codebase. The work is done when changing the terminal font size updates the open terminal immediately, without requiring an application restart.

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Description

bug
Description

Changing terminal font size in settings does not immediately change the terminal font like changing the editor font size does. After restarting CodeEdit the change is correctly honoured.

To Reproduce
  1. Go to Settings->Terminal
  2. Disable "Use text editor font"
  3. Change font size to 15
  4. Close settings.
  5. Result: Terminal font stays the same, no change is visible. (Except line height)
  6. After restarting CodeEdit, the changed terminal font size is correctly used in the terminal window.
Expected Behavior
  1. Go to Settings->Terminal
  2. Disable "Use text editor font"
  3. Change font size to 15
  4. Terminal font size in terminal window is changed immediately (like changing text editor font size)
  5. Close settings.
Version Information

CodeEdit: CodeEdit: 0.3.6 (47)
macOS: 15.7.1
Xcode: 26.1.1 (17B100)

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