Strange artifacts on status bar

[xorbetto]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser: Safari
• Local OS: MacOS
• Remote OS: Linux
• Remote Architecture: x64
• code-server --version: code-server: v4.124.2
  Code: 1.124.2
  Commit: 9fe7eb7
  Date: 2026-06-12T00:12:36Z
  Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.5 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open web interface

Expected

no artifacts on top bar

Actual

the strings on bar changes at every refresh

Logs

Screenshot/Video

No response

Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

No, this works as expected in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in VS Code web?

No, this works as expected in VS Code web

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

I did not test GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?

• I am using a secure context.

Notes

No response

[linear-code]

DEVEX-500