Disable mouse in Terminal.app?

[LinMac]

I would like to _COMPLETELY_ disable the mouse in Terminal.app so it returns to old behavior. I have seen it moving the cursor around in the Terminal on later systems and I want to disable this completely.

Please skip the questions why would you want to, suggestions of 3rd party replacements, or anything except what I asked. Thank you for your respect in this matter.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Please skip the questions why would you want to, suggestions of 3rd party replacements, or anything except what I asked. Thank you for your respect in this matter.

Sounds like a way to get people to want to help you...

 

[joedec]

I would like to _COMPLETELY_ disable the mouse in Terminal.app so it returns to old behavior. I have seen it moving the cursor around in the Terminal on later systems and I want to disable this completely.

Please skip the questions why would you want to, suggestions of 3rd party replacements, or anything except what I asked. Thank you for your respect in this matter.

I don't understand the question. I use the mouse to copy/paste in Terminal, that's about it. What else is there?

 

[mfram]

You can scroll in some apps. For example, use 'less' to read a file and you can use the scroll feature on the mouse to scroll through the file. Some apps can even accept clicks on the window.

My initial idea is to change the TERM variable to something like 'vt100'. But I haven't tried if that works to disable mouse control.

 

[joedec]

You can scroll in some apps. For example, use 'less' to read a file and you can use the scroll feature on the mouse to scroll through the file. Some apps can even accept clicks on the window.

My initial idea is to change the TERM variable to something like 'vt100'. But I haven't tried if that works to disable mouse control.

Right, I am aware of the option-click cursor placement, and scrolling. I forget about these things because I never use them.

I am just not sure what the OP wants, I mean move the mouse off the window and its no longer used in any way. In fact the default behavior is as soon as you use the keyboard the mouse pointer disappears.

 

[shewey]

I'd like to be able to do disable the mouse scroll in terminal.app too.

This is the problem: While editing in vim, touching the mouse scroll wheel moves the cursor up/down. This gets frustrating when you are copying & pasting within a file as it's very easy to inadvertently scroll while moving the mouse pointer.

Scenario: You position the cursor ready to paste, use the mouse pointer to highlight what you want to copy - inadvertently scroll - and now the cursor has moved to a different line so you can't paste. The control you have over the scroll isn't very fine so moving back to where you want to paste is a pain.

When I find out how to disable this I'll post back here.

EDIT: setting TERM=vt100 works. It may turn off too many advanced features though.

Function to disable scrolling when calling vim:
myvim() { OLDTERM=$TERM; TERM=vt100; vim "$*"; TERM=$OLDTERM; }

 

[vexorg]

Don't touch the mouse???

 

[shewey]

Don't touch the mouse???

That's a nice idea. I'll stop mqking typos too

 

[mfram]

You could try messing with Settings -> Profiles -> Advanced -> "Declare terminal as:" to vt100. That would turn off the mouse stuff. But you'd probably also lose color support.

 

[vexorg]

Preferences -> Profiles -> keyboard -> "Scroll alternative screen" : untick it to disable mouse scroll controlling the cursor