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macOS local session: live screenshot thumbnail drag-and-drop is silently swallowed #2091

Description

@stephen-tatari

Is this a reproducible bug?

  • I confirm this is a reproducible bug, not a feature request, idea, question, contribution proposal, or direction check.
  • I reproduced this bug on the version and environment reported below using the exact steps provided.

Current behavior

Dragging the live/unsaved screenshot preview thumbnail (from macOS screenshot capture, before it is saved to disk) into a herdr pane running locally produces no output at all: no text, no image, nothing in the pane or the foreground program.

Expected behavior

Same as a bare WezTerm shell with no herdr running (reproduction step 3 below): the dropped file's path is inserted as text into the pane.

Reproduction

  1. Take a screenshot (Cmd+Shift+4) so its floating thumbnail is on screen; do not click it away.
  2. Drag that thumbnail into a herdr pane (local session). Nothing happens.
  3. Drag the same thumbnail into a bare WezTerm pane with herdr fully quit: the file path is inserted as text.
  4. Save the screenshot to disk, then drag the saved file into the same herdr pane from step 2: it works normally.

Impact

Drag-and-drop of an in-progress screenshot into any local herdr pane is unusable; only Ctrl+V clipboard paste or manually saving the file first work around it.

Environment

  • Herdr version: 0.7.5
  • Update channel (stable or preview): stable
  • Operating system: macOS 26.5.2
  • Terminal: WezTerm 0-unstable-2026-06-22
  • Shell, if relevant: zsh (login shell)
  • Relevant config, if any: local session (not --remote)

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