How to make scrolling in tmux smoother?

Question

I am using the below configuration - setw -g mouse on

to use mouse scrolling within tmux sessions.

However, I notice the scrolling is not as smooth as an the Terminal.

Is there any tweaking/configuration i need to apply in tmux config to make the user experience better?

laktak · Answer 1 · 2020-11-12T13:51:57.670

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Tmux runs in a terminal window - so scrolling can only be done line by line.

If it is that important to you and you are using a Mac you can try iTerm2. It has support to use tmux in control mode so I imagine scrolling would be done at the UI level (haven't tested it though).

For Linux look at this answer.

edited Nov 12 '20 at 13:51

answered Nov 12 '20 at 13:46

laktak

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I'm using windows actually – Darshan L Nov 12 '20 at 13:52
@DarshanL You are on unix.stackexchange .. are you on WSL? See https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3656 – laktak Nov 12 '20 at 13:54
Okay, actually I'm running tmux from windows, tmux server session is running on Linux – Darshan L Nov 12 '20 at 14:06

How to make scrolling in tmux smoother?

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