Copy with mouse using tmux

Hello,

What version of RDM are you running?

Best regards,

Hi

I'm using version 2020.1.10.0 64-Bit.

I found yesterday that I could select and copy while holding Shift + Mouse Drag but that's not really ideal as it changes my flow and it also doesn't clear the selection after copying unless you then do shift + click.

After several hours of testing, I found that I could enable X11 forwarding, install VcXsrv locally, then install xsel on the remote server and then I have to update the tmux binding to save the tmux buffer to xsel.

This works but has a slight delay and requires me to install xsel remotely and have another app running locally. I'm not sure which is worse. Would be great if this could just work through the terminal. Thanks.

Hi,

After a chat with the engineering department, the mouse option in a terminal seems to be more a server feature and hard to implement in a standard SSH connection. That said, we are interested to see if we can improve our integration. If you try the same steps (as the first post without X11 or shift key) in an external Putty does the mouse is able to copy?

Regards,

Thanks for checking. Sadly both putty and wsltty have the same issues. It appears that alacritty is overriding the mouse events, which results in the opposite issue where you cannot select the panes by clicking on anything (similar to having mouse events off in tmux).

I've also tested byobu, but that's even worse as function keys don't work as expected (even with legacy terminal) but I guess that's a problem for another post.

I have also tested securecrt and although pane scrolling works great in there, it also has the same copy behaviour (which I guess although it isn't the best UX, seems to be the accepted standard).

All the different terminals do one or two bits better and none do all the things correctly (or in the most user friendly way)

So for now I guess I will have to live with X11 forwarding or use shift + drag where I can't use xsel or X11 forwarding