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• Automatically runned by .travis (on different terminal emulator / OS)

• xterm

• gnome-terminal

• alacritty

• kde-terminal

See in code why it happens and find a trick (like double buffering or cheaty redirection) to prevent user command line to disapear and appear again (alias flinkering)

Hi! Thank you for this awesome solution and for sharing it! Isn't it weird that so important and old tool like linux terminal stays so inconvenient in 2021? Its history stems from teletypes as physical devices, which didn't have cursor, obviously, but it is not an excuse imho.

Anyway, thanks for your efforts. The code works well if sourcing mouse.sh within an already running session, but when I saved the lines in .bashrc and rebooted, I got a creepy message:

It doesn't seem to affect anything, but that's not something one would wish to see at startup...

Another issue: the terminal cursor lands 18 characters to the right of the mouse cursor.
On the screenshot the latter is not visible, but it is located exactly after ~$

Thanks so much for your script. I would love to get it to work as I would like to be able to click to move the cursor in Gnome Terminal running bash (ie. the default terminal and shell on Linux Mint).

I tried to use your script following the README.md ie. I did:
eval "$(curl -X GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinmarino/mouse_xterm/master/mouse.sh)" && mouse_track_start

However, I got the error:
__bp_interactive_modemouse_track_echo_enable: command not found

I also get that error when I do:
printf '\e[?1000;1006;1015h'

About for my terminal says:

GNOME Terminal
3.36.2 
A terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop
Using VTE version 0.60.3 +BIDI +GNUTLS +ICU +SYSTEMD

Bash version is:
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release-(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

$ mouse_track_start
bash: 1mouse_track_echo_enable: ambiguous redirect

Probably worth to look at: Term Mouse: A mouse reporting interface

On Ubuntu 18.04 I get the following error within a Terminator terminal:

bash:  y0=<0 : y0=<0 : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "<0 ")