Appearance & window
Most visual oddities trace back to GPU compositing, an OS setting, or the OS owning a piece of chrome that Loach can’t restyle. See Themes for the settings themselves.
Aurora theme tears or stutters
The background or the translucent panels flicker or drop frames while you scroll or resize.
Switch to the Solid theme in Settings → Appearance. Aurora’s background is a static gradient under a large blur, and its translucent panels blur whatever is behind them - all GPU compositing that integrated GPUs and remote desktop sessions don’t always cope with.
Font size change didn’t fully apply
Some text scaled, some didn’t.
Native dialogs (file pickers, save dialogs, the prompt that confirms a local MCP server before it starts) follow the OS font scale, not Loach’s, and on macOS the window’s buttons are the system’s own. Everything Loach draws itself, the title bar included, follows the in-app setting - apart from a few fixed sizes: the onboarding step titles, the percentage in the context-usage popover and the “Aa” previews in the font-size picker itself. Adjust your system display scaling alongside the in-app setting if you need everything uniform.
Nothing animates
Spinners, the “typing” dots and menu transitions sit still.
Your OS is set to reduce motion, and Loach honours it. Turn animation effects back on in your OS accessibility settings if you want them.
The sidebar collapsed on its own
You opened the code canvas or the parameters panel and the chat list folded down to a strip of icons.
Expected on windows narrower than 1080 px: the sidebar gets out of the way so the transcript keeps a usable width, and comes back when the right-hand panel closes. Press Ctrl + Shift + S (or click the sidebar toggle) to reopen it at any time - a manual toggle always wins and cancels the pending restore. Widen the window past 1080 px if you want both panels open at once. See the sidebar on narrow windows.