diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4a2cac3..d705302 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -537,6 +537,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-width",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cursive_buffered_backend"
+version = "0.6.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e902dfdc09ca6729606f45a5ce6ce4ef9637fc257e8b11ca7806fc9aabd03cf7"
+dependencies = [
+ "cursive_core",
+ "enumset",
+ "log",
+ "smallvec",
+ "unicode-segmentation",
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cursive_core"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -1575,6 +1589,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clipboard",
  "crossbeam-channel",
  "cursive",
+ "cursive_buffered_backend",
  "dbus",
  "dbus-tree",
  "fern",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ce4ad89..14923a7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ tokio-stream = "0.1.9"
 toml = "0.5"
 unicode-width = "0.1.9"
 url = "2.2"
+cursive_buffered_backend = "0.6.1"
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
 wl-clipboard-rs = {version = "0.6", optional = true}
 
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 789dd03..679f989 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -166,7 +166,10 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), String> {
         credentials = credentials_prompt(Some(error_msg))?;
     }
 
-    let mut cursive = cursive::default().into_runner();
+    let backend = cursive::backends::try_default().map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
+    let buffered_backend = Box::new(cursive_buffered_backend::BufferedBackend::new(backend));
+
+    let mut cursive = cursive::CursiveRunner::new(cursive::Cursive::new(), buffered_backend);
     cursive.set_window_title("ncspot");
 
     let theme = cfg.build_theme();