diff --git a/client/src/components/run/TerminalView.tsx b/client/src/components/run/TerminalView.tsx
index 3ca16927..ffcc5866 100644
--- a/client/src/components/run/TerminalView.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/run/TerminalView.tsx
@@ -762,13 +762,32 @@ export const TerminalView = memo(function TerminalView({
         refit();
       };
       document.fonts?.addEventListener("loadingdone", onFontLoaded);
-      // The browser may drop or reuse the WebGL glyph atlas's GPU memory without
-      // a context-loss event (sleep/resume, a long-backgrounded tab, a display or
-      // zoom change on macOS): xterm keeps slicing the old coordinates and every
-      // cell shows a clipped or foreign glyph while the buffer stays correct.
-      // Rebuilding the atlas when the page comes back is cheap and redraws clean.
+      // @xterm/addon-webgl 0.19 shares ONE glyph atlas between every terminal
+      // with the same font, and when it fills up it merges four pages into one
+      // larger page and shifts the rest down. A GPU texture is re-uploaded only
+      // when its page's `version` differs from the uploaded one, and after a
+      // shift those counters can coincide, so a slot keeps a stale page of
+      // another size: every glyph is sampled squeezed or foreign while the
+      // buffer stays correct (fixed upstream only in 0.20 betas). Any option
+      // change makes each renderer re-acquire its atlas and re-upload all pages,
+      // so this toggles the family's trailing space (as onFontLoaded does) on
+      // a merge. `clearTextureAtlas` is no fix: it empties the SHARED atlas
+      // but redraws only this pane, leaving its siblings slicing reused space.
+      let atlasFrame = 0;
+      const rebuildAtlas = () => {
+        if (atlasFrame) return;
+        // Never inside the render that is rasterizing the merging glyph.
+        atlasFrame = requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+          atlasFrame = 0;
+          const family = term.options.fontFamily ?? "";
+          term.options.fontFamily = family.endsWith(" ") ? family.trimEnd() : `${family} `;
+        });
+      };
+      const atlasMerged = gpu?.onRemoveTextureAtlasCanvas(rebuildAtlas);
+      // The browser may also drop the textures without a context-loss event
+      // (sleep/resume, a long-backgrounded tab): rebuild when the page is back.
       const onPageShown = () => {
-        if (document.visibilityState === "visible") term.clearTextureAtlas();
+        if (document.visibilityState === "visible") rebuildAtlas();
       };
       document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", onPageShown);
       window.addEventListener("focus", onPageShown);
@@ -790,6 +809,8 @@ export const TerminalView = memo(function TerminalView({
         searchRef.current = null;
         resizeObserver.disconnect();
         document.fonts?.removeEventListener("loadingdone", onFontLoaded);
+        if (atlasFrame) cancelAnimationFrame(atlasFrame);
+        atlasMerged?.dispose();
         document.removeEventListener("visibilitychange", onPageShown);
         window.removeEventListener("focus", onPageShown);
         window.removeEventListener(FONT_SIZE_EVENT, onFontPref);
diff --git a/client/src/components/run/__tests__/TerminalView.test.tsx b/client/src/components/run/__tests__/TerminalView.test.tsx
index 6a1428df..df164860 100644
--- a/client/src/components/run/__tests__/TerminalView.test.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/run/__tests__/TerminalView.test.tsx
@@ -112,12 +112,15 @@ vi.mock("@xterm/addon-fit", () => ({
   FitAddon: vi.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({ fit: vi.fn() })),
 }));
 // The newest WebGL addon, with the context-loss listener the view gave it.
-const gpu: { last: { dispose: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>; lose: () => void } | null } = {
+const gpu: {
+  last: { dispose: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>; lose: () => void; merge: () => void } | null;
+} = {
   last: null,
 };
 vi.mock("@xterm/addon-webgl", () => ({
   WebglAddon: vi.fn().mockImplementation(() => {
     let onLoss = () => {};
+    let onMerge = () => {};
     const addon = {
       __webgl: true,
       dispose: vi.fn(),
@@ -125,8 +128,12 @@ vi.mock("@xterm/addon-webgl", () => ({
         onLoss = fn;
         return { dispose: vi.fn() };
       },
+      onRemoveTextureAtlasCanvas: (fn: () => void) => {
+        onMerge = fn;
+        return { dispose: vi.fn() };
+      },
     };
-    gpu.last = { dispose: addon.dispose, lose: () => onLoss() };
+    gpu.last = { dispose: addon.dispose, lose: () => onLoss(), merge: () => onMerge() };
     return addon;
   }),
 }));
@@ -488,6 +495,22 @@ describe("TerminalView", () => {
     expect(disposeMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled(); // the terminal itself lives on
   });
 
+  it("re-acquires the glyph atlas on the next frame after a page merge", () => {
+    // addon-webgl 0.19 may keep a stale page in a GPU slot after it merges
+    // atlas pages; any option change makes it re-upload every page.
+    const raf = vi.spyOn(window, "requestAnimationFrame").mockImplementation(() => 1);
+    render(<TerminalView runId="agenthub-lane-1" wsBaseUrl="ws://localhost:4820" />);
+    const opts = termOptions as { fontFamily?: string };
+    opts.fontFamily = "JetBrains Mono";
+    gpu.last!.merge();
+    gpu.last!.merge(); // coalesced into one frame
+    expect(raf).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(opts.fontFamily).toBe("JetBrains Mono"); // never inside the render that merged
+    (raf.mock.calls[0]![0] as FrameRequestCallback)(0);
+    expect(opts.fontFamily).toBe("JetBrains Mono ");
+    raf.mockRestore();
+  });
+
   // xterm 6 dropped its own Alt+arrow → word-move mapping; the pane keeps it.
   it("sends Alt+arrow as the word-move keys xterm 5 sent", () => {
     expect(altArrowSeq("ArrowLeft", false)).toBe("\x1b[1;5D");