[Bug]: Shell environment capture runs interactive zsh without TTY/TERM, spamming gitstatus/zle/monitor/tput errors

[bernardopg]

Area

apps/desktop (shell environment resolution)

Steps to reproduce

1. Use zsh as the login shell with a typical prompt stack (oh-my-zsh + powerlevel10k / gitstatus).
2. Launch the desktop app.
3. Inspect ~/.t3/userdata/logs/server-child.log.

Expected behavior

When the app resolves the shell environment (to import PATH etc.), it should not trip interactive-only shell machinery, and should not emit errors caused by running an interactive shell without a controlling TTY / TERM.

Actual behavior

The backend spawns the user's shell in an interactive context but without a TTY/TERM, so interactive-only init fails and spams errors on every launch:

(anon):setopt:7: can't change option: monitor
[ERROR]: gitstatus failed to initialize.
(eval):1: can't change option: zle
(eval):1: can't change option: zle
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
...

monitor (job control), zle (line editor) and gitstatus are interactive/TTY-only; tput fails because TERM is unset. This is the same general area as #2509.

Impact

Minor / log noise, plus wasted work spinning up prompt machinery (gitstatusd, etc.) that is irrelevant to env capture.

Version or commit

0.0.27 (Linux AppImage, t3code-bin AUR package)

Environment

Arch Linux, Hyprland (Wayland), zsh + oh-my-zsh + powerlevel10k.

Logs or stack traces

See the block above (from server-child.log, stream: stderr, component: desktop-backend-child).

Workaround

Guard interactive-only init in the shell rc behind a TTY check, e.g. [[ ! -t 1 ]] && return (after exports/PATH, which in my setup live in .zshenv and are evaluated before this). After adding that guard the env capture is clean and instant.

Suggested fixes on the app side (either/both):

• Set a sane TERM (e.g. dumb) when spawning the shell for env capture.
• Expose a marker env var (like VS Code's VSCODE_RESOLVING_ENVIRONMENT=1) so users can guard heavy interactive init in their rc during env resolution.