Terminal UI issues on IntelliJ

Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:intellij and area:tui.

51 issues · 11 open · 40 resolved (78%) · first seen Mar 2, 2026

Is this getting better or worse?

This class of problem is converging. 13 new reports in the last 90 days vs 24 in the 90 before — -46%. The open backlog peaked at 18 in 2026-07 and sits at 11 today.

0 5 9 14 18 2026-032026-052026-082026-10
2026-03 — First reports2026-04 — Most new reports (10)2026-07 — Peak backlog (18 open)

Derived by counting each matching issue from its creation date until it closed. First-party computation over the anthropics/claude-code tracker — the trend is not published anywhere upstream.

Which builds report this

46 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 34 releases. Heaviest reporters:

Report volume, not a defect count: an issue can mention a build without that build having caused the failure. Versions come from the version string in the bug-report template, matched against real published tags.

Do these get fixed?

Median time to close is 40 days across 40 closures. Of the 40 closures with a recorded reason, 8% were closed as completed and 37 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-08.

Workarounds reported by the community

9 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:

AskUserQuestion dialog auto-submits on mouse click without confirmation
…is is a SERIOUS issue - having to disable mouse clicks is a work around, but that stops people who like to use the click to PICK the option, rather than using arrow keys. Clicking on an option should NOT submit.
Found in the thread of #71547 · still open
[BUG] 2.1.89 - terminal content disappearing.
…em Ubuntu 24.04/Debian Linux Terminal/Shell Ghostty Edited: workaround in: [
Found in the thread of #42244 · resolved
[BUG] JetBrains reworked terminal duplicate mouse events: links open twice (clicks not de-duplicated like scroll)
…oordinate window when running under the JetBrains terminal. Workarounds tried (each loses something) - — stops the duplication (classic renderer doesn't capture mouse), but loses the fixed bottom input/footer and fullscr…
Found in the description of #68568 · resolved
[Bug] X11 PRIMARY selection pastes twice in JetBrains terminal
…ion type X11 - Linux 7.0.0-28-generic - TERM=xterm-256color Workaround Ctrl+Shift+V pastes once, but it reads CLIPBOARD rather than PRIMARY, so it requires an explicit copy first — highlighting alone no longer suffices.…
Found in the description of #87741 · still open
Mouse wheel scroll (and arrow keys) trigger prompt-history recall instead of scrolling transcript, in JetBrains (PhpStorm) integrated terminal
…ia / (jump between prompts) and (expand collapsed content). Workaround Running in a native terminal (iTerm2 / Terminal.app) instead of PhpStorm's integrated terminal works correctly — the terminal's own scrollback handle…
Found in the description of #77428 · resolved

Excerpts are quoted from the linked issue so you can judge relevance before opening it. Threads that only ask for a workaround, or report that there is none, are excluded. These are community suggestions, not official guidance from Anthropic — read the full thread before applying one.

Matching issues 1–51

Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments).

Related aggregations

  1. Terminal UI issues on macOS

    3,716 issues
  2. Terminal UI issues on Windows

    1,760 issues
  3. Terminal UI issues on Linux

    1,401 issues
  4. Terminal UI issues on VS Code

    283 issues
  5. IDE integration issues on IntelliJ

    145 issues
  6. Model behaviour issues on IntelliJ

    140 issues