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Mouse text selection issue with multiple windows #5876

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Description

@zaps

Overview

When at least 2 windows are open, text selection with mouse does not work properly.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Alacritty
  2. Put some text on the screen
  3. Open a new window via CreateNewWindow (I have it bound to Command-N)
  4. Put some text in the new window
  5. Select any section of text with the mouse

Expected Behavior

The text is selected by the mouse at the location of the cursor

Actual Behavior

The text 2 lines above the location of the cursor is selected

Workaround

Don't use multiple windows

Demo

alacritty-multi--window-mouse-issue

System

OS: macOS Big Sur 11.6.3 (20G415)
Version: alacritty 0.10.0 (8a26dee)

Logs

Crashes: n/a
Font/Terminal size: alacritty -vv
Keyboard and bindings: alacritty --print-events

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