Add a visible scrollbar to the TUI for fine-grained scroll navigation
Status Open
Reported on v2.1.152
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Activity 4 comments · opened May 27, 2026
What
The new flicker-free rendering is great, but there's no visible scrollbar in the terminal UI. PgUp/PgDn work for paging, but there's no visual indicator of scroll position or content length, and no way to fine-tune navigation the way a scrollbar allows.
Why it matters
- Position awareness — a scrollbar shows where you are in a long transcript and how much content is above/below.
- Fine navigation — PgUp/PgDn jump in fixed increments; a scrollbar (and/or drag) lets you land precisely.
Request
Add a visible scrollbar to the conversation/transcript view, ideally alongside the existing keyboard paging.
Environment
- Claude Code: 2.1.152
- OS: Windows 11
- Terminal: (PowerShell-based session)
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3 Comments
Scrollbar is missing when switching to fullscreen "/tui fullscreen" (Linux, Ubuntu, ghostty terminal). This is a very useful feature, so please add scrollbar in fullscreen mode also
@roy-ant @williamqian12 @sid374 @jportner-ant
Please guys add this feature, we would like to be able to do scrolling inside our ubuntu claude terminals
Note that there's a lot of value for the scrollbar to be only visible with the pgup/pgdown scrolling - using a mouse to grab and move it can be a subsequent task that understandably would require additional and separate work.