[gingerlime]

Isn't one of the advantages of tmux is reduce / avoid using the mouse?

I know that scrolling is one of the first non-obvious changes that seem irritating at first. But after you get used to scrolling with the keyboard, I find myself missing this possibility on 'standard' terminal windows.

Suddenly using the mouse to scroll feels really awkward and inefficient.

[Cthulhu_]

I think I can live without scrolling, but what I found most irritating when trying tmux is selecting / copying / pasting things. ATM I use iterm with split panes and a 'quake-style' dropdown terminal; tbh it works well enough for me.

[rjzzleep]

you can scroll just fine in tmux, in fact better because you can search in your scroll back. <c-b>[

as for selecting copying pasting. i use these options

    set -g mouse-resize-pane on
    set -g mouse-select-pane on

i can now select and resize panes with the mouse, and i can select while holding the option key on the keyboard.

also if you set

    setw -g mode-mouse on

you can scroll back with the mouse in the scroll back buffer without having to press c-b[ and it will still properly scroll everywhere else... vim/weechat/etc.

on a mac, iterm2 does this natively(in linux it works anyway). but if you want to use that in terminal or totalterminal(quake term) you'll need to install mouseterm. I recommend using mouseterm-plus as i recall mouse term is no longer maintained.

edit: looks like the link is dead you'll have to build it yourself https://github.com/saitoha/mouseterm-plus

[jasonlotito]

If you happen to be copying with the mouse, tmux has prefix + z, which expands your current pane to fill the screen. prefix + z returns the screen layout to it's former self. Makes the need to copy easy regardless of layout.

[joelthelion]

Why can't you have both efficient mouse AND keyboard control?

Sometimes your hand is on the mouse and it makes for sense to use it.

[Touche]

You might like Plan 9.

[d0]

Depends. If you have a ThinkPad with a TrackPoint-style mouse, it's actually really convenient having a mouse in the home row. Hold the middle button and scroll up/down easily.

[CJefferson]

Really? I find a quick scroll of the mouse wheel easier. Also when scrolling back a few hundred (or thousand lines), grabbing the scroll bar and finding where I want to be I find much faster.

I don't mind people who don't want to use the mouse, that's fine, but personally I sometimes don't run tmux when I know it will upset my scrolling and cut+pasting.

[ixmatus]

C-b [ + C-r <string> is pretty awesome when you know what you're looking for in the search history... Though I definitely use wheel scrolling when I don't remember exactly what I'm looking for or looking at log output.

[elementai]

I don't understand what are you talking about. In almost every linux terminal you can scroll with PageUp/Down and with mouse on most X ones(ex.: rxvt, xfce-terminal). In tmux one can press ctrl+b -> PageUp and scroll with keyboard or mouse.

edit: corrected hotkeys

[gpmcadam]

There are other benefits to having GUI integration to your terminal emulator. One of which is discovery of features. I personally find it easier sometimes to discover new features that are available in a context menu as opposed to reading an entire MAN page.

[a3n]

Mouse vs keyboard: I navigate with whatever my hand is on at the moment.