Screen doesn't automatically scroll when using mouse to select text if the status bar is disabled.

[C0de3nchantress]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

• VS Code Version: 1.100.3
• OS Version: Linux Mint 22.1

When I try to select text that is under the current visibility of the page, for example the most I can see is from line 1-25, if i try to select lines 23-31 with my mouse, the screen doesn't automatically scroll down as it should, instead it stays stuck there if I have my status bar visibility disabled. However it works when I enable it.

I did run vscode without any extensions and I had the same result.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Disable status bar visibility
2. Try to select text and move towards the bottom of the page with the status bar hidden.

[vs-code-engineering]

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.101.0. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

[C0de3nchantress]

Hi, just updated to 1.101.0. The issue still persists.

[aiday-mar]

Hi thank you for filing this issue. Could you please send me your settings file so I can try to reproduce this issue?

[C0de3nchantress]

settings.json

Just saw this, here ya go

[aiday-mar]

Hi thanks, I used your settings file and I tested both on macos and ubuntu 24.04. The scrolling seems to work in both cases.

Screen.Recording.2025-06-19.at.09.44.46.mov

Could you please include a screen recording of your issue? Also there is a difference between user settings and workspace settings. Could it be you sent the workspace settings file?

[pierrebrd]

I have the same problem as OP, on Ubuntu. The problem only appears when the window is maximized, because when the window is maximized and the status bar is hidden, the mouse cannot go "below" the editor, so the scrolling is not triggered.

Screencast.from.19-06-2025.14.32.12.webm

[aiday-mar]

I was able to reproduce this on my linux VM. I found that this happens because in the file mouseHandler.ts inside of the method _getPositionOutsideOfEditor, the mouse position is calculated as being within the editor bounds when the status bar visibility is toggled off. When the status bar visibility is toggled off, the editor height is calculated as 935. With the status bar visibility toggled on, the editor height is calculated as 913. The mouse position is calculated as being roughly at 930. So in the first case it is considered to be within the bounds and in the second case it is considered to be outside of the bounds.

[aiday-mar]

My understanding is that maybe the cursor hotspot is not able to get to the bottom of the screen exactly and therefore we always consider the cursor to be inside of the editor. A fix for this would be to add a padding and allow the cursor to be considered outside of the editor when the cursor reaches that padding.