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Scrolling

The wheel and trackpad scroll the pane’s scrollback. All of it lives under Settings → Terminal → Scrolling: plus the wheel zooms the font instead of scrolling. A scrollbar appears down the right edge of the pane as soon as the view moves, and fades out once it stops — the same bar the sidebar and every list in the app use. Drag its thumb to travel the whole scrollback at once, or click the track to jump. A pane sitting at the live edge stays bare, however much output is running through it.

The pointer

Under Settings → Terminal → Mouse:
If selecting text inside vim or less grabs the app’s own selection instead of yours, hold while you drag.

Font size

The base size is Settings → Appearance → Typography → Font size, 15 px by default. The rest of the interface has its own size — Interface font size, 16 px, adjustable from 12 to 24 — so you can scale the chrome without touching the terminal grid, or the other way round.

The bell

Settings → Terminal → Bell → Terminal bell decides what ^G does:

Command-finished notifications

Settings → Window & Tabs → Notifications posts a desktop notification when a foreground command finishes:
  • Notify on command finishNever, When unfocused (default), or Always
  • Notify threshold — how long a command has to run to qualify, 10 seconds by default
Coding agents use the same policy for their own notifications. Agent status →