# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Desktop composer backdrop-blur causing typing performance issues

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a backdrop-filter blur effect on the desktop composer input surface that causes significant typing lag, and efforts to address it by removing or adjusting that effect.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #117069. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #117069 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-117069`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #69130: perf(desktop): backdrop-blur on composer input surface causes severe typing lag

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#117069: Desktop composer: the editable input surface drops its live \`backdrop-filter\`, ending per-keystroke blur repaints (#69130, salvage #69187)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/fallback.test.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx`, `apps/desktop/src/components/chat/composer-dock.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/components/chat/composer-dock.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/styles.css`
- **#69187: fix(desktop): remove composer input backdrop blur**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `2a327c25af`, `#117069`, `#69130`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #117069 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-20`.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`