Mouse right click paste support inside a tmux session does not work

[Ignac Vucko]

SSH to a Ubuntu 20.04 server and left-click mouse to copy text followed by mouse right-click to paste text works perfectly.

If you start a tmux session however, left-click mouse to copy text works, but mouse right-click to paste does not.  A context menu appears momentarily and then disappears.

I tried changing all of the options for 'Mouse right clicks pastes content' and 'Mouse button paste', with the same result.

Anyone know of a workaround?

[Mike Frysinger]

tmux tends to enable mouse reporting and capture all clicks itself, so the terminal will disable its native support for pasting-on-clicks

-mike

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[Sameer Kochhar]

OK, will try to see if there's anyway to override tmux. Thanks

[Raza Ahmed]

were you able to find a solution for this issue?

[Jason Lin]

You probably have something like `set -g mouse on` in your tmux configuration to enable the mouse mode in tmux. Turning that off will allow the terminal to handle the right click by itself. Alternatively, you can use `ctrl-shift-v` for pasting.

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Best,

Jason Lin