I've used tmux and screen on occasion, but I can't get past the fact that they don't fit well with GUI terminals. I love having "GUI" scroll-back, which I can go through with mouse scroll-wheel, or just dragging the scroll bar up and down.
Except you can't natively select text for copy/paste anymore.
When you click-drag you're now triggering a tmux selection, not the native terminal-emulator highlight. This is a big problem because the emulated variant is slow and behaves nothing like the real thing.
To my understanding this is also a problem that can't be solved without further terminal emulator support. As it stands the remote application (tmux) can either receive all mouse-events or none of them.
This means you have to choose between scroll-wheel support plus broken text-selection - or no scroll-wheel support.
I tried the mouse integration and turned it back off for the same reason as you. Not having copy-paste at the terminal level is a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. Learning the vim movement commands better eliminated most needs for the mouse-pointing ability anyway.
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I've used tmux and screen on occasion, but I can't get past the fact that they don't fit well with GUI terminals. I love having "GUI" scroll-back, which I can go through with mouse scroll-wheel, or just dragging the scroll bar up and down.
You could enable the mouse for mouse interaction with a supported terminal. In my tmux config:
This particular configuration will allow you to scroll, select text and focus windows and panes with just a mouse click.Except you can't natively select text for copy/paste anymore.
When you click-drag you're now triggering a tmux selection, not the native terminal-emulator highlight. This is a big problem because the emulated variant is slow and behaves nothing like the real thing.
To my understanding this is also a problem that can't be solved without further terminal emulator support. As it stands the remote application (tmux) can either receive all mouse-events or none of them.
This means you have to choose between scroll-wheel support plus broken text-selection - or no scroll-wheel support.
I tried the mouse integration and turned it back off for the same reason as you. Not having copy-paste at the terminal level is a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. Learning the vim movement commands better eliminated most needs for the mouse-pointing ability anyway.
Same here. But I found a decent workaround.
I have following in my .tmux.conf:
Now I can scroll using "scroll bar" which is acceptable for me. Plus I also get native text-selection.Learning the vim movement commands better eliminated most needs for the mouse-pointing ability anyway.
Sadly not for me. I'm a die-hard vim-user but I can't live without my scroll-wheel in the terminal.
Agreed. This comment has a solution (if you use Mac OS X and iTerm2): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3823013
Agreed, it's a bit cumbersome scrolling and copy-pasting. It is nice to be able to scroll your panes independently though.