Question

Trying to get scrolling working in Ubuntu & tmux. e.g. wheel scroll back through pages.

Most of the advice seems to be to do:

set -g mode-mouse on

However set has no -g option for me:

-bash: set: -g: invalid option
set: usage: set [-abefhkmnptuvxBCHP] [-o option-name] [--] [arg ...]

However I notice that the top of the 1st man page for set shows:

PostgreSQL 9.1.3 Documentation  

Is the postgres ‘set’ “covering up” the regular set command that I want to use?

If so, how can I get around this and do the actual set -g that I want.

Answer 1

The option is for the ~/.tmux.conf file, or to be invoked to configure an already executing tmux by using:

tmux set -g mode-mouse on