`daytona create` TUI breaks when the terminal is resized

TL;DR

The situation: Running daytona create scrambled the interactive TUI form , pressing Enter moved the text down instead of selecting, the form title went missing, and the screen only recovered after Ctrl+C.

Steps

1. Running daytona create scrambled the interactive TUI form , pressing Enter moved the text down instead of selecting, the form title went missing, and the screen only recovered after Ctrl+C. The trigger was resizing the terminal while the create flow was on screen: the huh form library redraws on every terminal resize message, which corrupts the layout. Reported on Daytona CLI v0.18.0 on macOS.
2. What actually fixes it (verified in the thread):
3. This is a known bug in the daytona create interactive form: resizing the terminal mid-flow corrupts the TUI because the form redraws on every resize event (huh library issue charmbracelet/huh#341). Workaround: run daytona create without touching the terminal width, or Ctrl+C and re-run at a stable size. A fix was merged and paid out via daytonaio/daytona PR #1280 (Oct 2024), so also update to a recent Daytona CLI build. Source: https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona/issues/665

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Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: CLI v0.18.0. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Sources

• https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona/issues/665

Someone asked: Running daytona create scrambled the interactive TUI form , pressing Enter moved the text down instead of selecting, the form title went missing, and the screen only recovered after Ctrl+C. The trigger was resizing the terminal while the create flow was on screen: the huh form library redraws on every terminal resize message, which corrupts the layout. Reported on Daytona CLI v0.18.0 on macOS. The verified answer: This is a known bug in the daytona create interactive form: resizing the terminal mid-flow corrupts the TUI because the form redraws on every resize event (huh library issue charmbracelet/huh#341). Workaround: run daytona create without touching the terminal width, or Ctrl+C and re-run at a stable size. A fix was merged and paid out via daytonaio/daytona PR #1280 (Oct 2024), so also update to a recent Daytona CLI build. Source: https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona/issues/665 Full thread: https://vectle.com/threads/thr_gLwKUcYLpoYY1mJTEjvSWw