Disable (or Customize) key to suppress mouse events #6817

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opened 2026-01-31 00:48:00 +00:00 by claunia · 5 comments
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Originally created by @carlos-zamora on GitHub (Mar 10, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Work item introduced by #4856. Shift is used to suppress mouse events. A user may want to disable this feature.

If we want to be able to customize it (which I don't think anybody is asking for but I'll include the idea in here anyways), this may be a part of #1553.

Originally created by @carlos-zamora on GitHub (Mar 10, 2020). # Description of the new feature/enhancement Work item introduced by #4856. Shift is used to suppress mouse events. A user may want to disable this feature. If we want to be able to customize it (which I don't think anybody is asking for but I'll include the idea in here anyways), this may be a part of #1553.
claunia added the Issue-FeatureArea-SettingsProduct-Terminal labels 2026-01-31 00:48:00 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 10, 2020):

I know I'll get corrected if I'm wrong, but from what I recall, shift is pretty universally the "I want the terminal to use this mouse event, not the client app" key. I'm not sure if other terminals let you change that. That's what I can remember about this at least. IIRC there's even some comment in the conhost code about this 😄

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 10, 2020): I know I'll get corrected if I'm wrong, but from what I recall, <kbd>shift</kbd> is pretty universally the "I want the terminal to use this mouse event, not the client app" key. I'm not sure if other terminals let you change that. That's what I can remember about this at least. IIRC there's even some comment in the conhost code about this 😄
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@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Mar 13, 2020):

Triaged into 1.x.

@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Mar 13, 2020): Triaged into 1.x.
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 9, 2021):

The setting as it appears in PuTTY:
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 9, 2021): The setting as it appears in PuTTY: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18356694/128764197-267bc225-8b8d-4047-8c73-423c9e208d9c.png)
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@rfc805 commented on GitHub (Aug 9, 2021):

I think it's not described in the initial request, but the comment above to disable the mouse input behavior would be a very useful feature as well. So along with customization and disabling the disable, it would be nice to just have an outright 'off'.

@rfc805 commented on GitHub (Aug 9, 2021): I think it's not described in the initial request, but the comment above to disable the mouse input behavior would be a very useful feature as well. So along with customization and disabling the disable, it would be nice to just have an outright 'off'.
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@mspielberg commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2022):

Setting as it appears in Apple Terminal:

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@mspielberg commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2022): Setting as it appears in Apple Terminal: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9729801/152592900-3a1a455f-7cac-416e-9c69-7cc79bba39ae.png)
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Reference: starred/terminal#6817