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Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
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Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the static PNG was just fine, personally. What would an animated GIF show here, the time changing every 60 seconds? Animated product showcases are just annoying to me because I can't study any particular scene long enough to see everything.
how about a GIF of editting the config file and showing how the terminal status bar changes when reload the terminal.
You could... but it's really not necessary after a quick glance at the still image and the brief instruction text. I think this is fine as it is.
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#23Both screen and tmux do this, and if you’ve never tried either of them please do!
Much easier to deal with “tabs” in a single terminal session, plus you can detach a session and reattach it later. Screen also has a nice feature that lets you essentially share a terminal session by reattaching it multiple times without disconnecting the other sessions (screen -x).
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
A huge benefit of tmux is session management, where you can resume a session on a different terminal. I use it on my desktop, so I can ssh in on my laptop when working from home, and immediately pick up where I left off.
What if I use screen?
`tmux` is directly intended to replace `screen`.
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use the terminal for almost everything but rarely use tmux, I have a window manager for window management so tmux doesn't really seem too useful in that regard
tmux isn't a window manager.
He probaly means tiling window manager specifically, which makes tmux's binary partitioning redundant for all but remote work.
I used to use tmux much more heavily locally before I switched to a tiling window manager, now I only use it when I need to do a lot of work over SSH or am using an unstable connection or long running process etc.
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#26again... again... I have to be the jerk here. why is there nothing that shows what this does on the project page? You've spent countless hours creating this thing, yet you can't spend 10 more minutes showing off the capabilities? you have a static PNG image that is confusing at best. create a 15 second animated GIF that shows off your work.
>again... again... I have to be the jerk here.
do you though?
>why is there nothing that shows what this does on the project page?
RTFM - that's what it does. look at the screenshot - that's how it looks. why should they waste time pleasing your 1% vocal minority?
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone who would not benefit from tmux must only very rarely use the terminal, or not at all. This isn't a dig at this tool, just a strong endorsement for tmux =)
I use the terminal for almost everything but rarely use tmux, I have a window manager for window management so tmux doesn't really seem too useful in that regard
Do you ever ssh into remote servers?
Tmux would give you that same pane management on a remote server without having to SSH into the server in each pane.
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#28Reminds me of byobu + tmux, looks cool
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#29Both screen and tmux do this, and if you’ve never tried either of them please do! Much easier to deal with “tabs” in a single terminal session, plus you can detach a session and reattach it later. Screen also has a nice feature that lets you essentially share a terminal session by reattaching it multiple times without disconnecting the other sessions (screen -x).
Pretty sure you can attach to an already attached tmux session as well, which I believe has the same behavior that you’re describing. I’ve never used screen, is what you’re describing different than what I’m talking about?
Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
#30Both screen and tmux do this, and if you’ve never tried either of them please do! Much easier to deal with “tabs” in a single terminal session, plus you can detach a session and reattach it later. Screen also has a nice feature that lets you essentially share a terminal session by reattaching it multiple times without disconnecting the other sessions (screen -x).
Pretty sure you can attach to an already attached tmux session as well, which I believe has the same behavior that you’re describing. I’ve never used screen, is what you’re describing different than what I’m talking about?
The default behavior of tmux when multiple users are attached to the same session is that each user shares the same active window. With screen users can choose the active window independently of others.
You can get similar behavior in tmux by creating a new session with the "group-name" argument set to that of the name of the session you want to attach to.