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Console: No interrupt button after switching consoles #15578

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Positron and OS details:

Positron Version: 2026.09.0 build 76
Code - OSS Version: 1.130.0
Commit: 0862b3a4cd9c4037d887cf465a1895a8c6301f60
Date: 2026-08-13T15:59:55-07:00
Electron: 42.6.0
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.0
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0

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Describe the issue:

When switching away to a console and then back, the Interrupt button is lost, leaving the console in a state wherein it is busy but there is no affordance to interrupt it.

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Steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Start two consoles
  2. Run a command in one console, e.g. Sys.sleep(50). Confirm Interrupt button is present.
  3. Switch to the second console
  4. Switch back to the first console

The Interrupt button is gone.

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