Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle Expand Panel in the built-in browser

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
rust
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by locating the existing built-in browser's Expand Panel state and its command-palette or menu registration. Add a command that toggles the current panel, supports a default or configurable keyboard shortcut, and leaves the layout unchanged when no browser panel is open; verify both expanded and normal states.

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Description

app browser enhancement
What variant of Codex are you using?

App (Codex desktop, macOS)

What feature would you like to see?

Add a keyboard shortcut and a command-palette/menu command to toggle Expand Panel for the built-in browser.

The expanded browser view is useful during browser-based development and testing, but currently it must be enabled repeatedly with the mouse. This interrupts keyboard-driven workflows.

The command should:

  1. Expand the currently open built-in browser panel when it is in its normal state.
  2. Restore the normal panel layout when the browser panel is already expanded.
  3. Have a default keyboard shortcut, or at minimum be exposed as a configurable command so users can assign one.
  4. Operate on the current built-in browser panel without opening a new browser when none is present.
Additional information

This request is specifically for toggling the existing Expand Panel state. It is different from #18726, which requested a shortcut to open the browser and side panel.

Observed on Codex desktop 26.715.72028 (build 5706) on Apple Silicon macOS.

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