terminal: Mouse wheel doesn't scroll when terminal launched as "ubuntu"
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Your Windows build number: (Type
verat a Windows Command Prompt) 16299.309 -
What you’re doing and what’s happening: (Copy & paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)
- Launch wsl terminal as Ubuntu from Start Menu
- output anything longer than the terminal window.
- try scrolling with mouse wheel
- What’s wrong / what should be happening instead:
The view does not scroll up. If I launch cmd/powershell first and then Ubuntu, scrolling works as it should. Also dragging with the scroll bar works fine.
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 6 years ago
- Reactions: 7
- Comments: 25 (6 by maintainers)
My guess is that for one reason or another, the buffer height got set to the window height for your ubuntu shortcut. Try changing the “Screen Buffer Height” of the ubuntu command prompt to something like 9001.
That should make the scroll bar re-appear.
Okay I seem to have solved it as well. For me I only had to change the options (I turned QuickEdit Mode on) and then the scrolling worked again.
I am having the same problem but strangely enough the scroll wheel works fine as long as I don’t have the window selected. But as soon as I bring the window into the foreground the scroll wheel stops working.
I cannot scroll in any shell in Windows Terminal. Not Powershell, not CMD, not Ubuntu. I can move up and down using ctrl+shift+arrow up. When I open Powershell or Ubuntu by itself, scrolling works.
How do you enable quick edit?
Just experienced this issue in the native Ubuntu terminal, as well as a random change of the font size to a much smaller font. Enabling Quick Edit mode restored the scrolling functionality. Doesn’t appear to be related to the Terminal app, but no idea why this stopped working.
Edit: I’ve just discovered scrolling works when the console window is inactive, but stops to scroll when activated.
Actually none of these changes fixed the problem for me , instead i found that i can scroll with “Fn” key + Arrow(Up or Down) hoping to get any other suggestions . Thanks !
Holding shift and scrolling on the window seems to work for me 😕