Have you heard of gpm[1] - general purpose mouse? Slackware offers to install and enable it by default, even these days. It's a terminal based mouse server. nc

Have you heard of gpm[1] - general purpose mouse? Slackware offers to install and enable it by default, even these days. It's a terminal based mouse server. ncurses supports it so it's theoretically possible to do all the same things in a TUI that you would in a GUI with a mouse. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM_(software)