Byobu mouse scrolling - [OSX + Iterm2]

Question

I am trying to enable the mouse scrolling functionality in my local (non-ssh) byobu installation.

What I have tried doing :

1. Pressing F7 and scrolling with the mouse results in the following

2. Enabled the "Save lines to scrollback option" in Iterm2

3. Changed my ~/.tmux.conf to

   set -ga terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'
   set-option -g mouse on
   

Nothing seems to enable mouse scrolling. I have read pretty much all information on StackOverflow & Google to no avail.

Answer 1

You're modifying the incorrect tmux config for byobu.

Add the following line to the file ~/.byobu/.tmux.conf

set-option -g mouse on

Press F5 to reload your byobu profile (or start a new session). With iTerm 2 "Report mouse wheel events" enabled (the default), you should be able to mouse scroll your byobu sessions.