[wonginator1221]

You could enable the mouse for mouse interaction with a supported terminal. In my tmux config:

  set -g mode-mouse on
  setw -g mouse-select-window on
  setw -g mouse-select-pane on

This particular configuration will allow you to scroll, select text and focus windows and panes with just a mouse click.

[moe]

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.

[ajtaylor]

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.

[desipenguin]

Same here. But I found a decent workaround.

I have following in my .tmux.conf:

   set -g history-limit 1000
   # See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmux#Scrolling_issues
   set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'

Now I can scroll using "scroll bar" which is acceptable for me. Plus I also get native text-selection.

[moe]

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.