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I've seen elsewhere that scrolling via the mouse wheel (and other mousy events) can be enabled for tmux.. can this feature also be enabled in byobu (over tmux) and how?

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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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Hmm, that doesn't seem to work for me. Instead I get the whole terminal scrolling, making the byobu session disappear off the screen? Am I missing some additional setting somewhere? (Using gnome-terminal to ssh into server where byobu session is running) – Ashimema Oct 17 '12 at 9:16
What if you press alt-pageup, and then try using the scroll wheel...does that work? – Dustin Kirkland Oct 22 '12 at 14:38
Confirmed working with Konsole. Confirmed ineffective in Gnome Terminal by default - had to untick Scroll on keystroke option in profile preferences. – gertvdijk Jan 5 at 21:21

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