MobaXTerm : How to change mouse scroll in to terminal screen scroll up/down?

Question

The default behavior is history commands scrolling. Any way to change it?

Solution 1

I believe if you hold Shift down it will scroll the output and not simply cycle through command history.

Solution 2

This is not a default behaviour and cannot be configured using the UI / settings dialogue. You have to manually edit the ini-file.

1. Close MobaXTerm, otherwise changes to the ini-file will be overwritten
2. find the documents inside your user folder and got to the folder named MobaXterm
3. open the file named MobaXterm.ini with a text editor
4. look for the section called [Misc]

5. in this section add a line like this:

   ScrollMod=alt

Chosse a parameter that suits your needs: alt | ctrl | shift

6. open MobXTerm again and scroll the window holding down the selected control key

see MobaXTerm-documentation here: https://blog.mobatek.net/post/mobaxterm-configuration-settings/

But heads up. This will probably still cause problems inside a screen session. You can fix this quick by pressing Ctrl + A and Esc or edit your .screenrc as described here:

termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@ In tmux, it'd be something like (.tmux.conf):

set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'

Comments

[confetti]

If you're not sure, you should leave a comment for OP to verify. If it turns out to be helpful you can leave a full answer for OP to accept.

[diman82]

Works well, but not in tmux