Codex Windows app: option to use full window width for tables and wide outputs

I’d like to submit a UX/feature request for the Codex desktop app on Windows.

The app currently constrains thread content to a narrow centered column, leaving substantial unused horizontal space on large desktop displays. In practice, this makes tables and other structured outputs unnecessarily cramped and harder to review.

This is not a major issue for short prose responses, but it noticeably impacts usability when Codex generates:

  • tables
  • structured comparisons
  • logs
  • wide code/output blocks

I looked through settings and could not find any option to switch to a wider or full-width layout.

Requested improvement:
Please add a layout option that allows thread content to expand further horizontally, such as:

  • Full width
  • Wide layout
  • Adjustable max content width

This would improve readability and make better use of desktop screen space, especially for users working with structured outputs.

I’m attaching a screenshot showing the unused side margins and the resulting compression of table content.

If other users have noticed the same behavior, I’d be interested to know whether this is already being considered.

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It is remarkable that this tiny width with tons of wasted space has remained a persistent nuisance in ChatGPT, even as transitions into coding applications seem to be the main focus and the only promise of a killer app that OpenAI has remaining.

On the web, at least, you can hit the site’s CSS with styling the way you want responses and a code block to appear - as wide as you want it - but the apps are closed-source hopelessness for customization: