diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml
index 0fde69f..f1260e9 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/TransfersScreen.axaml
@@ -177,16 +177,27 @@
           thing (go to the parent directory), and the pair reading differently is the design's own choice
           faithfully carried over rather than a functional difference invented to justify it.
         -->
+        <!--
+          ◆ THE PATH SITS IN THE STAR COLUMN, ALONE, AND THAT PLACEMENT IS LOAD-BEARING.
+
+          TextTrimming only acts when measure hands the block a finite width, and a horizontal StackPanel
+          never does — it measures every child at infinity, takes the full answer, and an Auto grid column
+          passes that on. With the path in a StackPanel beside the label, a directory deep enough — the
+          remote pane meets one on any real host, this pane on any machine whose profile path is long —
+          made the header wider than the pane and pushed the icon buttons past the window's own edge. The
+          layout suite caught it at the 472-pixel session budget, on the one machine whose home directory
+          was long enough to arm it. Star column: bounded width, working ellipsis, buttons that stay.
+        -->
         <Border Grid.Row="0" Padding="0,0,0,10" BorderThickness="0">
           <Grid ColumnDefinitions="Auto,*,Auto">
-            <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="12" VerticalAlignment="Center">
-              <TextBlock Classes="label" FontSize="10" Text="LOCAL" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
-              <TextBlock Classes="mono" FontSize="13.5" FontWeight="Medium"
-                         Foreground="{StaticResource TextDim}" VerticalAlignment="Center"
-                         Text="{Binding LocalPath}" TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"
-                         ToolTip.Tip="{Binding LocalPath}" />
-            </StackPanel>
-            <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="4">
+            <TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Classes="label" FontSize="10" Text="LOCAL"
+                       VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="0,0,12,0" />
+            <TextBlock Grid.Column="1" Classes="mono" FontSize="13.5" FontWeight="Medium"
+                       Foreground="{StaticResource TextDim}" VerticalAlignment="Center"
+                       HorizontalAlignment="Left"
+                       Text="{Binding LocalPath}" TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"
+                       ToolTip.Tip="{Binding LocalPath}" />
+            <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="4" Margin="12,0,0,0">
               <!--
                 The drives, because the breadcrumb cannot reach them: above C:\ is a list rather than a
                 directory. Without this the pane is stuck on whichever drive the user profile is on. Chips
@@ -332,19 +343,26 @@
           UP is arrow_downward here, matching arrow_upward on the local pane above per the design's own two
           distinct glyphs; see that pane's own remark on why the pair differs without the actions differing.
         -->
+        <!--
+          The path is alone in the star column for the reason the local pane's header remark spells out:
+          TextTrimming needs the finite width only a star column gives it, and this is the pane where the
+          long path is not even unusual — it is any host with a deep directory tree.
+        -->
         <Border Grid.Row="0" Padding="0,0,0,10" BorderThickness="0">
           <Grid ColumnDefinitions="Auto,*,Auto">
-            <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="12" VerticalAlignment="Center">
+            <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="12" VerticalAlignment="Center"
+                        Margin="0,0,12,0">
               <TextBlock Classes="label" FontSize="10" Text="HOST" VerticalAlignment="Center"
                          IsVisible="{Binding ShowsHostPicker}" />
               <TextBlock Classes="label" FontSize="10" Text="BUCKET" VerticalAlignment="Center"
                          IsVisible="{Binding ShowsBucketPicker}" />
-              <TextBlock Classes="mono" FontSize="13.5" FontWeight="Medium"
-                         Foreground="{StaticResource TextDim}" VerticalAlignment="Center"
-                         Text="{Binding RemotePath}" TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"
-                         ToolTip.Tip="{Binding RemotePath}" />
             </StackPanel>
-            <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="4">
+            <TextBlock Grid.Column="1" Classes="mono" FontSize="13.5" FontWeight="Medium"
+                       Foreground="{StaticResource TextDim}" VerticalAlignment="Center"
+                       HorizontalAlignment="Left"
+                       Text="{Binding RemotePath}" TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"
+                       ToolTip.Tip="{Binding RemotePath}" />
+            <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="4" Margin="12,0,0,0">
               <Button Classes="paneicon" Command="{Binding RemoteUpCommand}"
                       IsEnabled="{Binding IsConnected}" ToolTip.Tip="Up one directory">
                 <TextBlock FontFamily="{StaticResource IconFont}" FontSize="16" Text="&#xE5DB;" />
diff --git a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
index 0c955d2..c411ba7 100644
--- a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
+++ b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ScreenLayoutTests.cs
@@ -1481,17 +1481,29 @@ public sealed class ScreenLayoutTests : IAsyncLifetime
     }
 
     /// <remarks>
+    /// <para>
     /// The narrowest real shape wave C's restyle has to survive at once: connected, so QUICK ACCESS's own
     /// sidebar takes its 300 pixels — see <see cref="LayoutHarness.SessionScreenWidth"/> — a populated remote
     /// listing carrying every colour state a row can show (a directory, an executable, a world-writable
     /// file), and a full transfer queue underneath, all inside the 204-pixel-a-side budget that leaves either
     /// pane.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Both pane headers carry a deep path on purpose, and the paths are set here rather than left to the
+    /// fixture's real filesystem. The header's ellipsis only works because the path sits alone in a star
+    /// column — see the pane header remark in <c>TransfersScreen.axaml</c> — and the regression it guards
+    /// against armed itself only on a machine whose home directory happened to be long: CI's per-job HOME
+    /// found it, every developer machine's short profile path missed it. A pinned sixty-character path asks
+    /// the question on every machine alike.
+    /// </para>
     /// </remarks>
     [Fact]
     public async Task TheRestyledPanesFitTheSessionShellsNarrowestBudget()
     {
         transfers.IsConnected = true;
         transfers.ConnectedTo = "deployment-service@releases.eu-west.internal.example:2222";
+        transfers.LocalPath = "/home/deployment-service/.cache/build/workspaces/site/artefacts";
+        transfers.RemotePath = "/srv/releases/site/shared/uploads/production/2026/08/nightly";
 
         transfers.RemoteEntries.Add(new RemoteEntryRowViewModel(new SftpEntry(
             "docker-compose.yml", "/srv/releases/site/docker-compose.yml", SftpEntryKind.File,