Mouse in screen(1) on the Linux console?

Solution 1:

From the latest GNU Screen Changelog has an entry for mouse usage:

* 'defmousetrack' and 'mousetrack', to turn on/off mouse-tracking for
  displays. It's turned off by default. With mouse-tracking turned on, it's
  possible to switch to a region ('focus') using mouse clicks. It's also
  possible to select a text region in copy-mode using a mouse click to place
  a mark and the scroll wheel to scroll through the buffer. Additional
  features might be to allow clicking on window-titles in the caption to
  switch to that window.

Debian unstable seems to have the latest gnu screen with the configuration above.

$dpkg -l screen
[...]
ii  screen                 4.1.0~20120320gi amd64            terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emu

Have fun!