Probably it guesses you want the mouse to send arrow keys when the
terminal is in alternate screen, try doing
tput smcup
and see if that makes konsole send them to cat -v.
tmux could do this but then mouse wouldn't work for copy mode in any
full-screen applications.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:39:22PM +0000, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I've spent so long trying to find a solution to this that I decided to ask
> the experts, in the hope that a solution does in fact exist.
>
>
>
> In my .tmux file, I have (of relevance):
>
>
>
> set -g mouse-select-pane on
>
> set -g mouse-resize-pane on
>
> set -g mouse-select-window on
>
> setw -g mode-mouse on
>
>
>
> If none of these options are present, tmux will pass through mouse wheel
> scroll events as emulated arrow-key events (as determined by "cat -v"):
>
>
>
> ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[B^[[B^[[B
>
>
>
> However, if one or more of these options is enabled, tmux enters a "mouse
> capture" mode, and doesn't emulate the mouse scroll wheel in this way, and
> nothing at all is passed to "cat -v". This all seems well and good, and
> certain applications (e.g. Vim) work brilliantly, because they are
> themselves mouse-aware, and the world is a wonderful place.
>
>
>
> However, when it comes to reading man pages, git logs, or indeed anything
> that uses a pager (mostly "less", by default), I do not have the ability
> to scroll with the mouse, and I REALLY miss this (mainly for man pages).
> Less pops up, and scrolling the mouse simply enters copy-mode (if
> mode-mouse is on), or nothing at all happens (if mode-mouse is off or
> copy-mode).
>
>
>
> Naturally, this is because tmux is no longer forwarding on an emulated
> three-up or three-down sequence that makes the scroll wheel act like the
> user is pressing the up and down arrows. However, I've had no luck at all
> finding a way to make "less" mouse-aware in order to make mouse scrolling
> work correctly in tmux.
>
>
>
> Interestingly, outside of tmux, Konsole doesn't perform any arrow-key
> emulation on scroll: "cat -v" shows nothing when I scroll the mouse, but
> the scrollbuffer scrolls up (as expected). This is very similar behaviour
> to tmux. However, when "less" is used directly in Konsole, I'm able to use
> the mouse to scroll up and down. I'm not entirely sure what kind of magic
> is going on there, but it gives me hope that the same behaviour might be
> possible in tmux.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts / help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Paul
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