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When I copy a selection from tmux with a window split, my screen fills up with garbage characters. Depending on the size of the selection, it could be a lot, or just one line. The following images demonstrate:

Selection Area

Then after hitting to make the selection:

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Notice all the garbage characters on the right pane.

How do I get rid of this behavior?

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  • how are you able to select only half pane? is there a setting ?
    – PnotNP
    Jul 10, 2019 at 21:44

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Reset to default
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There is an option set-clipboard that will try to copy your selection to the x-clipboard with an escape sequence.

:set-option -s set-clipboard off

gnome-terminal does not support this method of using the clipboard, which is the default terminal in Ubuntu.

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  • This actually bothered me for a long time (years), and I have finally run across the answer through trial-and-error and running byobu in an xterm. I noticed when I opened byobu/tmux in xterm, I didn't get these characters printed to screen. So, I searched the manual for what it could be.
    – dpb
    Aug 5, 2014 at 15:53
  • Thank you! This was bugging me for ... well, weeks now. :)
    – nem75
    Apr 16, 2015 at 13:27
  • This solution does not work for xfce (XUbuntu 16.04) terminal.
    – Wilson Freitas
    Apr 13, 2017 at 18:08
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Edit ~/.tmux.conf or with Byobu $HOME/.byobu/.tmux.conf:

set -g set-clipboard off
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