Chasing wheel-scrollback with tmux mouse mode broke the terminal — and reverting the code didn't undo the live server
Enabling tmux mouse mode to get wheel-scrollback flooded the webview (glitch + lag) and broke copy. The deeper lesson: reverting the CODE didn't reset the running tmux server, and disabling the mouse option didn't exit a pane already stuck in copy-mode.
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What I did, and why it was wrong
The user kept asking for wheel-scrollback in the panes. The only way to get it in a tmux
pane is tmux mouse mode (set -g mouse on). I knew it traded off with the copy-on-select
- click-to-copy features we'd just built — I even wrote that caveat — and shipped it anyway.
Result, verbatim: "파란명령어 클릭은 되는데 그래픽이 깨지고 버벅인다 … 복붙도 안됨." Graphics glitching, lag, copy broken, only the colored-command click surviving.
Why each thing happened (verified, not guessed)
With mouse on, tmux owns the mouse:
- Mouse-tracking escape sequences flood the webview on every mouse move → render glitch + lag.
- tmux intercepts drag/click → xterm's own selection (copy-on-select) is bypassed, and tmux's OSC52 copy never reached the system clipboard in this WKWebView stack → copy broke.
- The colored-command click survived because it's an xterm link resolved at render time, not a mouse-report.
The part that actually bit: code revert ≠ live state
I reverted pty.rs and reinstalled — and it was still broken. Two state traps:
- The option lives on the long-lived server.
set -g mouse onis set on the-L dalkkaktmux server, which survives app restarts. Reverting the code that sets it does nothing to a running server — it kept mouse mode on until I explicitly ranset -g mouse offon it. - Runtime mode ≠ the option. The focused pane had entered copy-mode from scrolling
(
#{pane_in_mode} = 1, confirmed vialist-panes). Turning themouseoption off does not exit copy-mode — the pane stayed frozen mid-scroll. I had tosend-keys -X cancelit.
So the fix was three things, not one: revert the code, reset the live server, and cancel the stuck pane's copy-mode.
Lessons (logged in docs/troubleshooting.md)
- Never trade a core working feature for one new one — especially blind. I can't see the GUI render; a change I can't see must be additive, not behavior-replacing. Copy worked; I broke it for scrollback that didn't even land.
- Server-scoped state outlives the code that set it. A
set -gon a persistent tmux server isn't undone by reverting the spawn code; reset the server explicitly. - A mode is not its toggle. Disabling
mousedoesn't leave copy-mode; cancel the mode. - Touching the user's live server is a stateful, outward action — say so first. I ran commands against the running tmux without flagging it; that's on me.
Wheel-scrollback is abandoned in this stack. History scrolls via ⌘L (the transcript log view)
or tmux copy-mode (⌃B [). Commits: ed971db (the mistake) → cb0ea8f (revert).
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