That's cool! Are there other versions of this idea around? Maybe older, more stable and trustworthy solutions?
Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
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Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
#22That's cool! Are there other versions of this idea around? Maybe older, more stable and trustworthy solutions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system)
Searching for it on Youtube brings up videos of a pretty ugly interface. With 80s style text windows.
I like OPs version because it just puts a one pixel border around the window and except everything is black.
Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system)
Searching for it on Youtube brings up videos of a pretty ugly interface. With 80s style text windows. I like OPs version because it just puts a one pixel border around the window and except everything is black.
that's a good point. i agree. but i never used twin, maybe it's configurable.
greetings, eMBee.
Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
#24Getting I/O errors uploading the asciinema cast, but here's a preview: https://streamable.com/4hoqh
You have an interesting setup for your desktop environment, care to share some of the details? I see an XFCE icon but I'm not sure if it's only XFCE being used there.
I use xmonad but with xfce4-panel. Dotfiles: https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/dotfiles
Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
#25Getting I/O errors uploading the asciinema cast, but here's a preview: https://streamable.com/4hoqh
How are you opening new windows? Keyboard shortcuts? What shortcuts are available?
I just click anywhere there's not a window. Didn't wanna add shortcuts as I'd need some way to escape them
Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
#26The use case is brilliant: > Use case? If you're seriously considering using this I recommend going to a psychiatrist. This program is so pointless, I even needed a mouse pointer to help me out find a point.
It is hilarious. If it has session save/restore, it can compete in the same space as screen/termux/byobu.
It doesn't. Would be an interesting thing to add perhaps, but then I'd need to add some kind of daemon I believe. I also don't want to compete with the existing software as there's no winning over them.
Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
#27That's cool! Are there other versions of this idea around? Maybe older, more stable and trustworthy solutions?
tmux is pretty darn neat for having multiple terminals inside one terminal, and it's tiling instead of floating. Also lets you detach sessions.