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Add mouse interaction section #297

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Expand Up @@ -28,10 +28,28 @@ You can right click on a tab and select Color... to color the tab for that termi
> [!NOTE]
> While it is possible to [set the tab title from the commandline](./tutorials/tab-title.md) with escape sequences, it currently isn't possible to set the tab color in this way.

## Zoom with the mouse
## Mouse interaction

You can zoom the text window of Windows Terminal by holding <kbd>ctrl</kbd> and scrolling. The zoom will persist for that terminal session. If you want to change your font size, you can learn more about the font size feature on the [Profile - Appearance page](./customize-settings/profile-appearance.md#text).
There are several ways to interact with Windows Terminal using a mouse.

## Adjust background opacity with the mouse
### Zoom with the mouse

You can zoom the text window of Windows Terminal (making the text size larger or smaller) by holding <kbd>ctrl</kbd> and scrolling. The zoom will persist for that terminal session. If you want to change your font size, you can learn more about the font size feature on the [Profile - Appearance page](./customize-settings/profile-appearance.md#text).

### Adjust background opacity with the mouse

You can adjust the opacity of the background by holding <kbd>ctrl+shift</kbd> and scrolling. The opacity will persist for that terminal session. If you want to change your acrylic opacity for a profile, you can learn more about acrylic background effects on the [Profile - Appearance page](./customize-settings/profile-appearance.md#acrylic).

### Open a hyperlink

You can open a hyperlink from inside Windows Terminal with your mouse using <kbd>ctrl</kbd> + click.

### Copy/paste

You can right-click with your mouse to copy and paste text within Windows Terminal using your clipboard storage.

Windows Terminal also includes a **[copyOnSelect](./customize-settings/interaction.md#automatically-copy-selection-to-clipboard)** setting that can be set to `true` in order for any text selected with your mouse to be immediately copied to your clipboard. The right-click on your mouse will always paste in this case.

### Virtual Terminal and WSL mouse support

Windows Terminal supports mouse input in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) applications as well as Windows applications that use virtual terminal (VT) input. This means applications such as [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki) and [Midnight Commander](https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-midnight-commander-in-linux) will recognize when you select items in the Terminal window. If an application is in mouse mode, you can hold down <kbd>shift</kbd> to make a selection instead of sending VT input.