windows version 'ssh' does not have mouse support (while WSL version of ssh does)

[tigerinus]

Environment

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18363.0
Windows Terminal 0.10.761.0
OpenSSH for Windows

Steps to reproduce

1. Use OpenSSH comes with Windows to log onto a Linux host.
2. run tmux with set -g mouse on in its conf
3. split panel and try to select a panel using mouse

Expected behavior

Mouse support should work. (I tried ssh from my Debian WSL and it works)

Actual behavior

Mouse support does not work, if I use OpenSSH that comes with Windows.

[DHowett-MSFT]

This is a bug in Windows OpenSSH. It is fixed in version 8.

[fejjj]

I have version 8.1.0.1 (windows 10) and I have this bug unfortunately.

[zadjii-msft]

@fejjj you may be seeing PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH#1990 or PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH#1863, or something else from their repo. IIRC, mouse support is dependent on the OS version, and I'm not sure which Windows 10 versions actually included the mouse support in conpty.

[fejjj]

Ok, thank you. The tickets you referenced had a more recent conhost version than mine, so I guess that is indeed the problem. Do you know whether it's possible to update conhost without upgrading the whole OS? Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[lhecker]

It's possible to replace conhost.exe in C:\Windows\System32 with a newer version. That said, don't do it, because you risk breaking the OS permanently that way. Upgrading Windows would be a lot safer.

[fejjj]

I wonder where I could source a newer version of conhost. This is just a home pc, no problem to restore windows if I break it. But it is not compatible with Windows 11 so upgrading is probably out of the question.

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