Clicking on a URL in the terminal sometimes opens a previous URL

[d5ve]

Thanks for zellij, it has made things so much faster with claude code, and fixed so many scrollback and other issues I was having with tmux.

• Apple M1 Pro laptop
• macOS 15.6.1
• iTerm2 Build 3.6.4
• eternal terminal (et) connection to headless Ubuntu 24.04.2 server
• zellij 0.43.1 running on server

When a URL appears in the terminal output on the server (after a github branch push etc.) I can hold down the Command key and click to open it in the browser on my laptop.

But occasionally, it opens a previous URL instead. And even hovering over the link shows the previous URL. Copying and pasting the link as displayed does work.

So, when the bug occurs, the visible URL text is correct, but a click or hover shows a previous URL.

I might see https://example.com/some-new-url displayed in the terminal. But a click takes me to https://example.com/thing-from-an-hour-ago and a hover shows that same old URL.

This doesn't happen often, maybe 10% of the time.

I don't know if it's zellij or iTerm2. But I ran things for years with the same setup but with tmux instead of zellij and never saw this bug. So either zellij or a recent iTerm2 update I guess. I have only been using zellij for a month, so I can't say whether it used to work, and now doesn't, or if it's always been like this.

I don't run zellij locally on my laptop, only on the server.

Cheers,

Dave

[imsnif]

Hey, thanks for the report. If you can find a way to reproduce this (I myself use the web client as a daily driver and have not encountered this behavior) that would be great. I realize this is only occasional behavior and so it's not trivial, but otherwise I wouldn't know where to start looking.

[d5ve]

I had a bit of an attempt to trigger the bug on purpose. Nothing I tried today caused the bug to appear though. It didn't seem to be anything obvious like hitting Ctrl-s for scrollback/search mode, then clicking a link. I tried switching between tabs, and detaching and reattaching to sessions etc. But nada so far.

I'll try more tomorrow.

[imsnif]

Thanks for trying. A wild guess: try to display a line-wrapped link (even 2 or 3 lines if possible), then unwrap it - see if it still works as expected. If it does, display another link after it and try that.