GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
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Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#2Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux (http://tmux.sourceforge.net/). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't.
EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf (http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2) and my screenrc (http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never really understood screen. Maybe that's just me.
Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#3Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't. EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf ( http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 ) and my screenrc ( http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 ). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never real…
I've been using tmux, but it feels less inituitive than screen, and I haven't seen as many howto's and such for tmux as I have for screen.
tmux may be better, but it feels harder to get proficient with than screen.
Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#4Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't. EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf ( http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 ) and my screenrc ( http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 ). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never real…
Is screen really that terrible? Enough to switch to something else? Screen is largely standard at this point. Why would I want to switch to this tmux?
Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#5Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't. EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf ( http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 ) and my screenrc ( http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 ). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never real…
I've been using tmux, but it feels less inituitive than screen, and I haven't seen as many howto's and such for tmux as I have for screen. tmux may be better, but it feels harder to get proficient with than screen.
I tried tmux after "not getting" screen. I found tmux to just work without me having to do a lot of R-ingTFM. Speaking of RTFM, tmux is now in the base system of OpenBSD so I would not be surprised to see more how-to's online now (not sure when you tried it).
Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#6The day I learned about Screen...It was pure bliss..it solved so many problems I didn't know I had.
Copy/pasting, Switching between workstations while working remotely all without losing your spot. Collaboration.
If you don't know about screen, and you find yourself using a CLI even just a little bit, you should take the time to learn it.
Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been using tmux, but it feels less inituitive than screen, and I haven't seen as many howto's and such for tmux as I have for screen. tmux may be better, but it feels harder to get proficient with than screen.
I tried tmux after "not getting" screen. I found tmux to just work without me having to do a lot of R-ingTFM. Speaking of RTFM, tmux is now in the base system of OpenBSD so I would not be surprised to see more how-to's online now (not sure when you tried it).
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Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#8Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't. EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf ( http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 ) and my screenrc ( http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 ). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never real…
I've been using tmux, but it feels less inituitive than screen, and I haven't seen as many howto's and such for tmux as I have for screen. tmux may be better, but it feels harder to get proficient with than screen.
I haven't seen any HOWTOs for tmux (I've thought about writing one), but as usual, the OpenBSD man page is very good, and thorough: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux
Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#9Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux ( http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ ). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't. EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf ( http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 ) and my screenrc ( http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 ). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage, than it was to configure screen. My screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste from lots of different sources, but I never real…
Care to clarify "screen is voodoo. tmux isn't."? That's pretty meaningless.
The overall design to tmux is quite a bit cleaner, and (having poked around in their respective sources), I know which I'd be more likely to contribute patches to. It took screen forever to get vertical splits (are they still an unofficial patch?), whereas tmux already has dwm/XMonad-style layouts.
tmux is also included in the standard OpenBSD install. Make what of that you will.
Re: GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
#10While we are talking about screen - I'd really like to be able to highlight text in VIM (using the visual mode) and then be able to paste that into another screen. Does anyone know how to do this?