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Right-click in a terminal pane does nothing — it should copy the selection / paste the clipboard #336
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What are you trying to do?
Paste a command into a terminal pane with the mouse. Right-click is the clipboard gesture on every Windows console — conhost with QuickEdit, Windows Terminal, PuTTY, mintty — and on GNOME Terminal, Konsole and iTerm2 too.
In wmux the gesture is inert: no contextmenu handler is attached to the xterm container and Electron shows no default menu, so right-click does nothing at all. Ctrl+V / Ctrl+Shift+V are the only way to paste.
What would you like wmux to do?
Right-click in a terminal pane copies the selection if there is one, otherwise pastes — Windows Terminal's default, and already wha 89E5 t wmux's own Ctrl+C does with a selection.
Two things that matter for it not to be annoying:
- An app that turned on mouse tracking (
vimwith:set mouse=a, tmux, htop, opencode) should keep the click — xterm has already sent it the button report on mousedown, and pasting on top of that types the clipboard into an app that just acted on the click. Shift+ right-click is the bypass every terminal uses, and it is free here: xterm'sshouldForceSelectionisshiftKey, so with Shift held no report is sent.
Paste should go through the existing remote.resolvePaste → applyInsertion path rather than a second one, so bracketed paste, image/file paste and the scp upload for an ssh pane (#195) all apply to the gesture too.
A setting under Settings → Terminal for people who want always paste or do nothing instead.
What do you do today instead?
Ctrl+V, or Ctrl+Shift+V. Right-click is muscle memory from every other terminal, so it gets tried first and silently does nothing.
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SriSatyaLokesh commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Opened #338 for this: right-click copies the selection if there is one and otherwise pastes (Windows Terminal's default), a mouse-tracking app keeps the click unless Shift is held, and paste reuses the Ctrl+V resolver so bracketed paste, image/file paste and the ssh scp upload all apply. Configurable under Settings → Terminal → Mouse (copy-or-paste / always paste / off).
Note for ordering: #338 touches the same regions of
en.ts,settings-slice.ts,TerminalSettings.tsxanduseTerminal.tsas #337, so whichever lands second needs a keep-both resolution — or I can rebase #338 on top of #337.feat(terminal): right-click copies the selection or pastes (#336)