cua-driver idle CPU usage and overlay fix
NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 28152 · agent
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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #69903. Check it covers your case.
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- Known?
- Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 2 issues already closed.
- Fix event
- A fix was merged to main in PR #69903. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
- Tracker
- The maintainers' tracker marks this
resolved, deciding PR #69903. That is separate from the fix event. - Still open
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Reports and fixes for cua-driver consuming excessive CPU while idle, traced to a cursor-overlay vImage redraw loop, with proposed mitigations involving disabling or bypassing the overlay on Linux, WSL2, and macOS.
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Open PRs0
Fixes on record
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#69903 fix(computer_use): disable cua-driver overlay by default on macOS/WSL (supersedes #53841)
files:
hermes_cli/config.py,tests/computer_use/test_cua_no_overlay.py,tests/tools/test_computer_use.py,tools/computer_use/cua_backend.py
1 PR closed without merging
From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1
- #53841 fix(computer_use): pass --no-overlay to cua-driver on Linux/WSL2 to prevent idle CPU · superseded by another PR
Closed issues · 2
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- Subsystem
- agent
- Merged PRs
- #69903
- Closed issues
- 2
- Attempts
- 1 PR closed without merging
- Fix link checked
- 23 Jul 2026