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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Claude Code in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04
  2. Try to click and drag to select text without holding Shift
  3. Observe: selection does not work; the app captures the mouse event
  4. Workaround: hold Shift while selecting — this passes the event to the terminal

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Claude Code in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04
  2. Try to click and drag to select text without holding Shift
  3. Observe: selection does not work; the app captures the mouse event
  4. Workaround: hold Shift while selecting — this passes the event to the terminal

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Claude Code in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04
  2. Try to click and drag to select text without holding Shift
  3. Observe: selection does not work; the app captures the mouse event
  4. Workaround: hold Shift while selecting — this passes the event to the terminal
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  • I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Description: Text selection in Claude Code now requires holding Shift while clicking and dragging. This was not required approximately two weeks ago — selection worked without Shift in the same terminal setup.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Claude Code in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04
  2. Try to click and drag to select text without holding Shift
  3. Observe: selection does not work; the app captures the mouse event
  4. Workaround: hold Shift while selecting — this passes the event to the terminal

Expected behavior: Click and drag selects text (as it did ~2 weeks ago)

Current Claude Code version: 2.1.165

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy)

Terminal emulator: GNOME Terminal 3.44.0

TERM: xterm-256color

COLORTERM: truecolor

What Should Happen?

Description: Text selection in Claude Code now requires holding Shift while clicking and dragging. This was not required approximately two weeks ago — selection worked without Shift in the same terminal setup.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Claude Code in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04
  2. Try to click and drag to select text without holding Shift
  3. Observe: selection does not work; the app captures the mouse event
  4. Workaround: hold Shift while selecting — this passes the event to the terminal

Expected behavior: Click and drag selects text (as it did ~2 weeks ago)

Current Claude Code version: 2.1.165

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy)

Terminal emulator: GNOME Terminal 3.44.0

TERM: xterm-256color

COLORTERM: truecolor

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

Text selection in Claude Code now requires holding Shift while clicking and dragging. This was not required approximately two weeks ago — selection worked without Shift in the same terminal setup.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Claude Code in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04
  2. Try to click and drag to select text without holding Shift
  3. Observe: selection does not work; the app captures the mouse event
  4. Workaround: hold Shift while selecting — this passes the event to the terminal

Expected behavior: Click and drag selects text (as it did ~2 weeks ago)

Current Claude Code version: 2.1.165

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy)

Terminal emulator: GNOME Terminal 3.44.0

TERM: xterm-256color

COLORTERM: truecolor

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

2.1.165

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Terminal/Shell

Other

Additional Information

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