microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Mouse cannot select text with pyautogui
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Description
### Windows Terminal version
1.17.11461.0
### Windows build number
10.0.19045.3570
### Other Software
python 3.10, pyautogui 0.9.5 (The exact versions doesn't matter actually)
### Steps to reproduce
Install the pyautogui library (The version doesn't matter).
Execute the following code and you have 3 seconds to switch to the terminal and position the cursor on any text.
```
from time import sleep
import pyautogui
from pyautogui import Point
sleep(3)
pyautogui.click()
pyautogui.mouseDown(button='left')
for i in range(50):
position: Point = pyautogui.position()
pyautogui.moveTo(position.x + 4, position.y)
pyautogui.mouseUp(button='left')
```
### Expected Behavior
The text where the cursor is positioned starts to be selected towards the right.
FYI : I tested that code on other terminals like classic windows terminal, Git Bash and WSL2 and the problem doesn't occur.
### Actual Behavior
The cursor is positioned at the right place and progress to the right as expected but no selection happens.

Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the supplied Python and pyautogui reproduction on the reported Windows Terminal and Windows build, then compare its behavior with classic Windows Terminal, Git Bash, and WSL2 as described. Trace the terminal's mouse-drag handling to determine why automated movement does not select text; done means the reproduction selects text toward the right without regressing normal mouse selection.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, python
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100