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[Bug]: Mouse/trackpad scroll in terminal navigates history instead of scrollback #2823

@JanKazimir

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@JanKazimir

Current Behavior

Hi Wave team,

I’m running Wave Terminal on macOS 15.7.3 (arm64). In the terminal widget, using the mouse wheel or trackpad scroll gesture moves through command history (like repeated Up/Down arrows) instead of scrolling the terminal buffer/scrollback.

Details:

This behavior happens in Wave only; it does not happen in Terminal.app.
It still happens even if I start a clean shell with:

bash
env -i zsh -f

so it doesn’t appear to be related to my ~/.zshrc or shell config.
Clicking in older output and then scrolling doesn’t change the behavior.
The same issue occurs with both an external mouse and the Mac trackpad.

Expected Behavior

Mouse wheel and trackpad scroll should scroll the terminal scrollback buffer, not navigate command history, or there should be a setting to control this (e.g. a toggle for “Scroll wheel sends up/down arrows” vs “Scroll wheel scrolls buffer”).
This makes it hard to review older output from commands. Could you confirm if this is a known bug or if there’s a hidden setting/flag to restore normal scrollback behavior?

Thanks!

Steps To Reproduce

1/ open terminal
2/ run a bunch of ls commands or other to have some stuff above
3/ try to scroll up to see the old outputs
4/ the text doesn't scroll

Wave Version

Client Version 0.13.1 (202512170503)

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macOS

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arm64

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