Re: tmux: mouse works in st but not in xterm

Stuart Henderson <stu.lists@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2024-02-01, Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:
> > On 2024/02/01 12:06:13 +0100, rsykora@disroot.org wrote:
> >> Dear list,
> >>
> >>
> >> when I run tmux in xterm, the mouse support does not work.
> >
> > by default mouse support is disabled on xterm on OpenBSD. No clue why,
> > as I think it's useful. The knob to enable it is
> >
> > XTerm*allowMouseOps: true
> >
> > which is documented in xterm.
>
> ---------------------
> PatchSet 127
> Date: 2021/10/31 18:38:43
> Author: matthieu
> Branch: HEAD
> Tag: (none)
> Log:
> Disable mouse tracking by default.
>
> This causes extra control sequences to be sent to the shell when an
> application that has it enabled crashes. Discussed with deraadt@
>
> Members:
> Makefile:1.36->1.37
> xterm.man:1.55->1.56
>
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thank you. I probably should have found it in the man page.
I will reenable it hoping it will not cause me any harm.


Best regards,
Ruda