Disable mouse interactions in gnome-terminal on Debian-based systems

gnome-terminal, the default terminal on Gnome desktops, has an annoying featurebug where mouse interactions are relayed to applications running inside the terminal (e.g., vim, htop), and there’s no way to disable it. I don’t know about you, but I think this is a mistake. Based on the discussion on Gnome’s gitlab instance (Add option to disable mouse handling in gnome-terminal) it looks like there’s no intention to disable this featurebug, leaving us with only one option: rebuild from source....