Select text in tmux under rxvt-unicode (urxvt)

Brian

I've only recently started experimenting with a urxvtterminal emulator instead xterm. I'm a heavy tmuxuser so had to get the two to work together seamlessly.

I've noticed that when running tmuxinternally urxvt, there is some strange behavior when selecting text. I hold the Shift key and select the text with the mouse, it's highlighted in yellow (as if TMUX is still processing it), but with a flickering, flickering black background - as if competing urxvtwith tmuxthe control for selection. Does that make sense?

I've tested with zero (except enabling the mouse tmux) both individual configuration options tmuxand urxvt.

In xterm, when I hold down the shift key and select the text, I notice that it is highlighted in inverse color (as opposed to tmux's yellow background). In urxvt, the selected text still seems to be affected tmux.

Any ideas on how to fix this weird behavior?

I'd even be interested in some tips or keywords on how to spot problems here. Any developer familiar with the codebase knows why mouse selection works well xtermbut not with urxvtterminology?

Material

Thanks to nicm from this issue in the tmux github repo, the problem you describe was solved for me (urxvt for tmux 2.1 and 9.21):

When dragging, you can disable tmux from entering copy mode by unbinding the MouseDrag1Pane keybinding.

In .tmux.conf, add:

unbind -n MouseDrag1Pane

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