diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/screen-portal.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/screen-portal.tsx
index 7afa011f24..07fd89b538 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/screen-portal.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/screen-portal.tsx
@@ -119,6 +119,20 @@ export function useScreenPortalState(bot: RosterRow) {
     [bot, profileKey]
   )
 
+  // A start/stop/crash made outside this window (CLI, gateway auto-start, another Desktop) is
+  // pushed by the serve-side runtime watcher; without it the portal's status was one-shot.
+  useEffect(
+    () =>
+      host.onEvent('display.status', (event: RpcEvent) => {
+        const payload = event.payload as DisplayStatus | undefined
+
+        if (payload?.profile_key && isEventForBotScreen(bot, event, profileKey)) {
+          setScreenStatus(bot, payload)
+        }
+      }),
+    [bot, profileKey]
+  )
+
   return { status, lease: state?.lease ?? null, tone: portalTone(status, state?.lease ?? null, state?.viewer ?? null, state?.unavailable) }
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/tui_gateway/test_display_watch.py b/tests/tui_gateway/test_display_watch.py
index b9248724c9..ca7e70a624 100644
--- a/tests/tui_gateway/test_display_watch.py
+++ b/tests/tui_gateway/test_display_watch.py
@@ -78,3 +78,27 @@ def test_release_in_another_process_is_broadcast_and_local_transition_not_duplic
 
     assert _wait_for(lambda: _lease_events(events, holder="agent")), events
     assert len(_lease_events(events, holder="agent")) == 1
+
+
+def test_screen_started_or_stopped_by_another_process_is_broadcast_as_status(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """A start/stop made by the CLI or gateway process must reach an open Desktop: the portal's
+    status was otherwise one-shot (fetched once, then only lease events)."""
+    import tui_gateway.server as server
+
+    home = tmp_path / "home"
+    (home / "bot-desktop").mkdir(parents=True)
+    events = _watching(server, home, monkeypatch)
+    server._poll_runtime_files()  # seed
+    assert not [e for e in events if e[0] == "display.status"]
+
+    # what runtime.start() publishes from another process: launcher.pid then env
+    (home / "bot-desktop" / "launcher.pid").write_text("424242 1.5")
+    (home / "bot-desktop" / "env").write_text("DISPLAY=:77\n")
+    server._poll_runtime_files()
+    statuses = [p for e, p in events if e == "display.status"]
+    assert statuses and statuses[-1]["profile_key"] == str(home)
+
+    (home / "bot-desktop" / "env").unlink()  # stop() from the other process
+    server._poll_runtime_files()
+    assert len([e for e in events if e[0] == "display.status"]) == 2
+    assert [p for e, p in events if e == "display.status"][-1]["running"] is False
diff --git a/tui_gateway/methods_display_watch.py b/tui_gateway/methods_display_watch.py
index 3050d08b76..e45af89f79 100644
--- a/tui_gateway/methods_display_watch.py
+++ b/tui_gateway/methods_display_watch.py
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ _lease_watcher_started = threading.Event()
 # made by THIS process is not re-broadcast when its file write is noticed a tick later).
 _lease_epochs: dict[str, int] = {}
 _lease_mtimes: dict[str, int | None] = {}
+# profile key → (env mtime, launcher.pid mtime): the screen's running/display identity. A start,
+# stop or crash made by another process (CLI, gateway auto-start) moves one of these.
+_runtime_marks: dict[str, tuple] = {}
 
 
 def _lease_event_payload(profile_key: str, lease) -> dict:
@@ -35,6 +38,34 @@ def _watched_lease_homes() -> list[Path]:
     return [Path(_hermes_home), *_served_profile_homes]
 
 
+def _mtime(path: Path):
+    try:
+        return path.stat().st_mtime_ns
+    except OSError:
+        return None
+
+
+def _poll_runtime_files() -> None:
+    """Broadcast ``display.status`` when a home's screen started/stopped outside this process."""
+    from hermes_constants import hermes_home_key, reset_hermes_home_override, set_hermes_home_override
+    for home in _watched_lease_homes():
+        key = hermes_home_key(home)
+        sd = home / "bot-desktop"
+        mark = (_mtime(sd / "env"), _mtime(sd / "launcher.pid"))
+        first = key not in _runtime_marks
+        if _runtime_marks.get(key) == mark:
+            continue
+        _runtime_marks[key] = mark
+        if first:  # seeding: display.status carries the current state
+            continue
+        token = set_hermes_home_override(home)
+        try:
+            payload = _display_snapshot()
+        finally:
+            reset_hermes_home_override(token)
+        _broadcast_global_event("display.status", payload)
+
+
 def _poll_lease_files() -> None:
     """One pass: read a home's lease only when its file mtime moved; broadcast when the epoch did."""
     from hermes_constants import hermes_home_key
@@ -77,6 +108,7 @@ def _ensure_lease_watcher() -> None:
         while True:
             try:
                 _poll_lease_files()
+                _poll_runtime_files()
             except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 - a torn read must not kill the watcher
                 logger.debug("lease watcher poll failed", exc_info=True)
             time.sleep(_LEASE_POLL_S)