Codex Windows app UI issue: Ctrl+F search box is too close to the window close button
OpenAI Developer Community
March 16, 2026
Codex for Windows has a UI issue with the Ctrl+F search box. When I open the search box with Ctrl+F, it appears in the top-right corner, extremely close to the window control buttons. It is so close to the Close button that I cannot safely click near the search box to dismiss it, because the hover/click area of the Codex Close button gets triggered first. This makes it very easy to accidentally close the entire Codex window instead of just interacting with the search box.
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