Shift+Enter and Alt+Enter no longer insert newlines in Konsole
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 7, 2026 by bshor Closed May 7, 2026
After updating to codex-cli 0.128.0, Shift+Enter and Alt+Enter no longer insert a newline in the Codex CLI prompt when running in Konsole on KDE Plasma / Arch Linux.
This worked before a recent Codex update. Ctrl+J still works, but it is awkward as the only multiline input shortcut.
Environment:
- Codex CLI: codex-cli 0.128.0
- OS: CachyOS x86_64
- Kernel: Linux 7.0.3-1-cachyos
- Shell: fish 4.7.0
- Desktop: KDE Plasma 6.6.4
- Window manager/session: KWin on Wayland
- Terminal: Konsole 26.4.0
- Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Observed behavior:
- Ctrl+J inserts a newline.
- Shift+Enter no longer inserts a newline.
- Alt+Enter no longer inserts a newline.
Expected behavior:
- Shift+Enter and/or Alt+Enter should insert a newline in the prompt, as before.
Terminal key sequences from showkey -a:
Ctrl+J:
^J 10 0012 0x0a
Shift+Enter:
^[OM 27 0033 0x1b
79 0117 0x4f
77 0115 0x4d
Alt+Enter:
^[^M 27 0033 0x1b
13 0015 0x0d
It looks like Codex still handles literal LF from Ctrl+J, but may have stopped mapping the Konsole Shift+Enter / Alt+Enter escape sequences to prompt newlines.
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