Ubuntu – byobu scrolling and text selection

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I want byobu running in gnome-terminal to:

Interpret mouse wheel scrolling as scrolling up in the current byobu window.
Allow me to select text with my mouse (eg, to copy it to the clipboard).

Is this possible? Alt+F12 will enable #1, but prevent me from selecting text. Otherwise, selecting works fine, but scrolling scrolls through gnome-terminal, and not the current byobu window.

Best Answer

You're right about Alt-F12, for toggling mouse mode on and off.

As for scrolling in the Byobu, you'd need to enter scrollback mode, using F7.

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The behaviour you describe sounds like your terminal was stuck in the full screen "cursor addressing" mode used by tools like less and vi.

The mode can become stuck if those programs do not exit cleanly. For instance, if you kill -9 them, or are running them through an ssh session that disconnects. You can exit this terminal mode by running the following command:

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Or just try browsing a file with less and quit as normal. You should then have access to your scrollback and the contents of the screen when cursor addressing mode was entered.

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Yes, this is possible. You just have to enter scrollback mode first.

Simply press F7, and then use your mouse scroll wheel. Finally, press ESC to exit scrollback mode.

It appears that some terminals won't allow you to scroll using your mouse still. For Gnome Terminal, untick the Scroll on keystroke option in the profile preferences (tab Scrolling).

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