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As a tmux user the missing mouse support was a deal-breaker. It seems like I have no excuses left to remain on mintty. :)

by hs86 7y ago

kchoudhu 7y ago
I still want to see mintty gain the ability to dock into Windows Terminal.
- vishnuharidas 7y ago
  You can. Open settings file and add one entry for mintty.
  - kchoudhu 7y ago
    Doesn't work. You can launch it, but you can't dock it.
laumars 7y ago
Each to their own and all but I've always found it weird that some tmux users would spend hours setting up their keyboard driven interfaces (the terminal) and then prefer to use the mouse to switch between different applications running on it. Particularly when tmux has such a great support for keyboard hotkeys. I'm not out to criticise anyone's preferred workflow but it is a pattern that has always taken me a little by surprise.
- jayjader 7y ago
  For things like altering split-pane layouts, mouse remains king for both quickly & precisely adjusting width and height - at the same time, no less. Quickly moving focus to 1 random pane out of 6+ is also a single input, whereas with keys it can be up to ~(total number of panes - 1). It's also a single config option to enable all mouse functionality, whereas setting up keybindings do just the resizing takes several lines.
  - laumars 7y ago
    > For things like altering split-pane layouts, mouse remains king for both quickly & precisely adjusting width and height - at the same time, no less. Quickly moving focus to 1 random pane out of 6+ is also a single input, whereas with keys it can be up to ~(total number of panes - 1). You're not taking into account moving your hands from the keyboard and to the mouse, shacking it to find which where and on which screen your mouse cursor is located, and then putting your hands back on the keyboard after the resize. However what we're really arguing about is negligible micro-optimisations anyway so it's a little silly to say one is faster or slower than another. :) > It's also a single config option to enable all mouse functionality, whereas setting up keybindings do just the resizing takes several lines. Keybindings for selecting and resizing panes are already defined in tmux's defaults. You don't need to configure nor enable it. However it is something you'd need to look up, commit to memory, then muscle memory after. Which I guess creates enough of an hurdle that many people haven't bothered to jump.

As a tmux user the missing mouse support was a deal-breaker. It seems like I have no excuses left to remain on mintty. :)

by hs86 7y ago

As a tmux user the missing mouse support was a deal-breaker. It seems like I have no excuses left to remain on mintty. :)

kchoudhu 7y ago

I still want to see mintty gain the ability to dock into Windows Terminal.

vishnuharidas 7y ago
You can. Open settings file and add one entry for mintty.
- kchoudhu 7y ago
  Doesn't work. You can launch it, but you can't dock it.

laumars 7y ago

Each to their own and all but I've always found it weird that some tmux users would spend hours setting up their keyboard driven interfaces (the terminal) and then prefer to use the mouse to switch between different applications running on it. Particularly when tmux has such a great support for keyboard hotkeys. I'm not out to criticise anyone's preferred workflow but it is a pattern that has always taken me a little by surprise.

jayjader 7y ago
For things like altering split-pane layouts, mouse remains king for both quickly & precisely adjusting width and height - at the same time, no less. Quickly moving focus to 1 random pane out of 6+ is also a single input, whereas with keys it can be up to ~(total number of panes - 1). It's also a single config option to enable all mouse functionality, whereas setting up keybindings do just the resizing takes several lines.
- laumars 7y ago
  > For things like altering split-pane layouts, mouse remains king for both quickly & precisely adjusting width and height - at the same time, no less. Quickly moving focus to 1 random pane out of 6+ is also a single input, whereas with keys it can be up to ~(total number of panes - 1). You're not taking into account moving your hands from the keyboard and to the mouse, shacking it to find which where and on which screen your mouse cursor is located, and then putting your hands back on the keyboard after the resize. However what we're really arguing about is negligible micro-optimisations anyway so it's a little silly to say one is faster or slower than another. :) > It's also a single config option to enable all mouse functionality, whereas setting up keybindings do just the resizing takes several lines. Keybindings for selecting and resizing panes are already defined in tmux's defaults. You don't need to configure nor enable it. However it is something you'd need to look up, commit to memory, then muscle memory after. Which I guess creates enough of an hurdle that many people haven't bothered to jump.