iTerm2 mouse reporting outputting symbols

Question

Sometimes, for a reason I don't understand, mouse reporting prints those characters in the console uppon scolling clicking etc.

If I disable then re-enable mouse reporting then scrolling and clicking comes back as expected.

How do I debug the source of this "switch"? I don't even know where to start to understand what might happen in my console for this so happen.

local (remote) setup: zsh 5.7.1 (5.4.2) + oh-my-zsh (latest as of today)

Answer 1

I have not been able to figure out what triggered this weird behaviour but 2 simple simple fixes are

• turn on/off mouse reporting in the preferences
• re-source ~/.zshrc

Answer 2

Just press cmd+R. It fixed the problem for me