OrcaWinandOrca Worker a68ee67cf9 fix(codex): stop prompting a Codex restart when only its home changed (#25421)
* fix(codex): stop prompting a Codex restart when only its home changed

A Codex terminal that outlived the move to ~/.codex was blocked behind "This
Codex session is using an outdated configuration" until the user restarted it,
which starts a fresh codex and ends the conversation. That terminal keeps
working on Orca's old Codex home, which is refreshed from ~/.codex, so the
change did not need the user's answer; the prompt also never appeared for
Codex in Git Bash terminals, whose process tree Orca cannot see through.

The restart prompt now covers only an account switch, which the user caused.
The pane record keeps its home route, which the retained-home refresh and the
shared-server check still read; only the prompt and the custom-home downgrade
that existed to keep it from guessing are gone.

* refactor(codex): drop what the home-route prompt left behind

- Record a pane's own CODEX_HOME override as-is. The filter that kept only
  overrides Orca could re-derive existed for the removed route comparison;
  its one remaining reader, the shared-server check, returns null for the
  shared-home route those panes record either way.
- Treat custom-home like shared-home in resolveCodexPaneHome: the removed
  downgrade only wrote it without an override, so it never named a home.
- Inline the restart notice key; its route/account prefix was its only job.
- Delete the two pane-local override tests, including a POSIX-only one that
  still expected custom-home and would have failed on Linux and macOS CI.
- Cover the account recheck branches the deleted route-recheck file was the
  last to exercise: main reporting a pane current, and main not answering.

* refactor(codex): retire custom-home and the last re-check helpers

- Read an older build's custom-home record as shared-home, which it always
  was, and drop custom-home from the route type and every check.
- Delete shellStartupCodexHomeOverrideMatches and its comparison helper;
  nothing re-checks a recorded override any more.
- Build the pane launch record in one return: the route is always set, and
  only a resumed launch differs, in how it picks the account.
- Drop the restart dialog's notice key; its focus effect now depends on the
  pane and both account labels directly.
- Give the account recheck test a typed window stub, so CI's type-assertion
  gate passes, and remove timing entries for deleted test files.

* fix(codex): drop the removed dialog strings main added to es.json

* refactor(codex): stop recording a pane's custom CODEX_HOME

The pane record kept a pane's CODEX_HOME override so the removed route
prompt could re-check it later. Its one other reader, the shared-server
check, only looked at it for a real-home pane, and a custom CODEX_HOME
always routes a pane to Orca's mirror, so it was never used.

Drop both record fields, their validators, equality checks and spawn
plumbing. getCustomCodexHomeOverrideForLaunch folds into the existing
hasCustomCodexHomeOverrideForLaunch, and real-home resolves to ~/.codex.
Records from older builds still parse; the parser keeps only known keys.

The fish test's decoy no longer sets CODEX_HOME, so the boolean check
still fails if the launch env XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ignored.

* test(codex): drop setup the yes/no CODEX_HOME checks no longer need

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