Using mouse scroll with Multitail

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Is there any way to use the mouse wheel, or the terminal window slide bar, to look through a multitail log?

Ideally multitail would work almost exactly like tail (except with the obvious coloring).

Not without modifying the program (there's no mouse code in multitail). — Thomas Dickey, Dec 01 '17 at 21:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 03 '17 at 01:08

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Not without modifying the program (there's no mouse code in multitail). It uses ncurses, but uses none of the mouse-support functions. You can see this by inspecting the source-code.

answered Dec 03 '17 at 01:08

Thomas Dickey

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 02 '20 at 01:30

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Probably the code changed since 2017 and multitail has now much more tails then in 2017. In the Debian version actually I was able to use the mouse after I changed the following in /etc/multitail.conf
the shell to bash in line line 1046

shell:/bin/bash

and in 1151 I changed to yes

scrollback_show_winnrs:yes

answered Aug 02 '20 at 01:30

Max Muster

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Did not work for me :( – olejorgenb Jun 30 '22 at 12:20

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '23 at 16:09

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Tested in Ubuntu 22.04, multitail work with mouse out of the box, no need specific config.

answered May 17 '23 at 16:09

Jérôme B

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Using mouse scroll with Multitail

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