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Use terminal scrollbar with tmux

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Mar 15, 202624556 views
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Problem

I know how to scroll in tmux using the keyboard, but I noticed that it looks like there's a way to use the terminal scrollbar with GNU Screen. Can this be done with tmux?

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Fix for: Use terminal scrollbar with tmux

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This is possible in both GNU screen and in tmux and the workaround is similar: to fool the multiplexers into thinking that the terminal has no "alternate screen" mode (such as that used by pico, mutt, etc). This is accomplished by setting termcap commands for the session. For GNU screen, put this in your : and for tmux, add this to your : The ' ' part of the command should be set to whatever your terminal-emulator is declared as. Some form of xterm is a good guess, but you can check yours on mo…

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