Display not being refreshed after App.suspend (since 0.85)

[davep]

Using this code:

from os import system

from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
from textual.containers import Horizontal, Vertical
from textual.widgets import Footer, Header, Input


class SuspendingApp(App[None]):

    CSS = """
    Screen {
        Vertical {
            border: solid;
        }
    }
    """

    BINDINGS = [("f1", "edit")]

    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
        yield Header()
        with Horizontal():
            yield Vertical()
            yield Vertical()
        yield Input()
        yield Footer()

    def action_edit(self) -> None:
        with self.suspend():
            system("vim")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    SuspendingApp().run()

if you press f1 and then exit vim the screen of the Textual application doesn't fully restore:

Screen.Recording.2025-02-15.at.08.58.26.mov

Working backwards through Textual releases, the last version where App.suspend worked as intended was v0.84; it very much appears that v0.85.0 introduced this issue.

[TomJGooding]

system("vim")

Joining the dark side Dave?

git bisect points to 6298acb, presumably this change in screen:

@@ -1205,8 +1205,8 @@ def _get_inline_height(self, size: Size) -> int:
 
     def _screen_resized(self, size: Size):
         """Called by App when the screen is resized."""
+        self._compositor_refresh()
         self._refresh_layout(size)
-        self.refresh()
 
     def _on_screen_resume(self) -> None:
         """Screen has resumed."""

I'm not really familiar enough with how the refreshing works to say this is the correct fix, but just sharing my findings in case it helps someone...

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