No, zero mouse usage, you can both address each tab by number and just moving between them. I wouldn't have any terminal emulator without the latter feature at least, and all I've tried support it.
I hate mixed mouse + keyboard workflows as well.
Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
by eikenberry on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:35PM
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Just like zero mouse and same single keypress tabs w/ tmux... my point was that this is not a distinguishing characteristic of terminal tabs.
Been a long time since I last tried tmux but was not switching between panes something like Ctrl-B + Ctrl-<something_else>? I don't remember but if it was that it's still much more than Super-Left/Right.
Tabs usually mean mouse+click to switch which takes way more effort that a simple alt+number or similar keybinding used to switch "tabs" in tmux. I'd guess that some terminal emulator tabs allow keybindings to switch tabs as well but, modelling OP, I'm focusing on the expected default experience.