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by jwilm 3453 days ago
I'm happy to hear you're enjoying it!

> concerning the the Alacritty devs since Alacritty requires a multiplexer to be usable

The project initially started to be an optimized tmux renderer. It's not supposed to appeal to everybody. That said, there's a big segment of users with tiling window managers that are only blocked by not having scrollback, and we're talking about adding it. Features like tabs/splits will likely never be introduced.

> If I can find a workaround to the remote paste issue

What platform are you on that the selection copy and mouse paste isn't working? It's also possible to configure this to another keybinding if you prefer.

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I'm using Mint Mate (Sarah), can't get a context menu on right click. I installed all of the dependencies mentioned in the readme, though maybe Mint requires something that Ubuntu doesn't. Tmux mouse support works, interestingly enough.

> Features like tabs/splits will likely never be introduced.

I wholeheartedly support this. Count me among those that like the idea of an "optimized tmux renderer".

edit: I just realized you weren't referring to a context menu, but select/middle-click. Duh, didn't even think to try that as I don't really use that feature much. That'll do the trick for now, though apparently they plan to remove this feature from the next gnome release? Seems odd to me -- Anyways, thanks for the suggestion, now I can use alacritty for remote sessions!