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.
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:
- Claude Code v2.1.283
- Claude Code v2.1.198
- Claude Code v2.1.90
- Claude Code v2.1.285
- Claude Code v2.1.209
- Claude Code v2.1.201
- Claude Code v2.1.195
- Claude Code v2.1.193
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).
- AskUserQuestion dialog auto-submits on mouse click without confirmation
- [BUG] Pressing 'Escape' doesn't close the /BTW conversation when the main conversation is asking for approval
- [BUG] 2.1.89 - terminal content disappearing.
- [BUG] transcript spontaneously disappears
- [BUG] JetBrains reworked terminal duplicate mouse events: links open twice (clicks not de-duplicated like scroll)
- [Bug] X11 PRIMARY selection pastes twice in JetBrains terminal
- [BUG] mouse wheel scroll in IntelliJ on mac does not scroll conversation
- [Bug] Terminal window focus conflicts with mouse click handling on responses
- [Bug] Terminal focus-in event consumed as prompt denial in permission dialog
- [BUG] PyCharm Terminal scroll
- [Feature Request] AskUserQuestion timeout should be configurable
- Mouse wheel scroll (and arrow keys) trigger prompt-history recall instead of scrolling transcript, in JetBrains (PhpStorm) integrated terminal
- [Bug] AskUserQuestion timeout too short for user input
- [BUG] Kitty keyboard protocol sequences display as literal '<' and '<%' in JetBrains JediTerm (IntelliJ/WebStorm)
- [BUG] Please stop asking me to provide feedback (repeat)
- [BUG] CLI freezes when holding directional arrow keys to navigate text input
- [BUG] auto compaction become silence
- [BUG] Scroll does not work anymore in the terminal for the Claude code output
- [BUG] Fucking cursor disappears in the fucking console
- [Bug] Terminal hangs when using arrow keys after escape in IntelliJ with -r flag
- [Bug] `/ultrathink` command not recognized despite displaying in UI
- [BUG] Claude Code stops streaming tool activity and only shows “Effecting…” with increasing tokens
- [Bug] CJK text selection highlight misaligned/ghosted in JetBrains JediTerm fullscreen TUI
- No working scroll in Claude Code's terminal UI right now in WebStorm.
- [BUG] File picker (@) selected item highlight barely visible compared to multiple-choice selection highlight
- [BUG] The entire chat history isn't visible
- [BUG] Claude Code falsely claims it can accept and read pasted screenshots in the terminal, even though terminals do not support image input.
- [BUG] Agents view breaks scroll in terminal
- [Bug] Incorrect escape character in logger documentation example
- [FEATURE] Pycharm Claude terminal app: The resume picker should display key hints (↑/↓ to navigate, Enter to select)
- [BUG] ESC to close not works in JetBrains IDEs
- [Bug] Shortcut help menu shows "&" for background execution but feature is not implemented
- [Feature Request] Preserve message visibility when auto-collapsing earlier context
- [Bug] Command suggestions with line continuations have trailing whitespace after backslashes
- [BUG] using /btw would sometime result in No response received
- [Bug] Multiple cursor instances remain at same position during text input
- [BUG] /usage progress bars render for ~1s then disappear in PyCharm terminal (both engines); fine in system terminal
- [Bug] Terminal cursor visibility inverted in PyCharm/WebStorm terminal
- [BUG] Pycharm keeps freezing when using Claude on the terminal of the IDE
- [Feature Request] Add option to disable whimsical comments in CLI outputwhat
- Mouse text selection + Cmd+C does not copy in the TUI (mouse mode captures the selection)
- [BUG] Auto-generated terminal tab title uses wrong language
- [BUG]
- [BUG]
- [BUG] pasted smal text as "Pastet text #N" randomly
- [BUG] /usage stats - missing months of usage
- [Bug] Terminal hyperlink detection interferes with output colorization and creates unintended clickable regions
- [Bug] `/resume` hides sessions started from subdirectory of same repository
- [Bug] Prompt suggestion ghost text not appearing with Claude 3.5 Opus
- [Bug] Mouse scrolling limited to input area in PhpStorm CLI session
- [Bug] Escape key aborts sub-agent when exiting `/btw` mode