Cannot copy terminal text

“When Codex CLI is actively processing a prompt, I am unable to select and copy any text within the terminal.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/14901/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Fading. No reports and thumbs-up in the last 7 days and 4 the week before, down from 24 a week at the late-September peak. A workaround is known.

Terminal text cannot be selected or copied in interactive CLI. In the default interactive interface, selecting text and using the terminal's Copy feature copies nothing to the transfer area.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: Codex CLI
Versions: 0.159.0 to 0.166.0
Platforms: Linux
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow.

Part of: CLI copy and paste broken7 bugs

Right-click paste fails in TUI7 people
Cmd+C copy broken on macOS84 people
Text paste fails4 people
Middle-click paste of selection broken7 people
Middle-click paste inserts nothing9 people
Inconsistent TUI copy/paste shortcuts10 people

Original reports4, newest first

Oct 30, 2026can't copy the agent's message and everything it outputsOn GitHub#58394
Oct 19, 2026Cannot select and copy text from Codex CLIOn the forum#1407863
Sep 29, 2026Codex CLI alternate-screen mode prevents normal terminal text selection/copyOn GitHub#49324
Sep 25, 2026I CANT FUCKING COPY TEXT, IT WAS WORKING JUST FINE MANI CANT FUCKING COPY TEXT, IT WAS WORKING JUST FINE MANOn GitHub#48125