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OT: How can I use my Mac's mouse to switch the active window in tmux? I have tried Googling this and the .conf setting everyone says to use doesn't work.
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I often run screen sessions inside tmux if I need to ssh to remote machines. tmux is beautiful and I say that as a screen veteran.
> I often run screen sessions inside tmux if I need to ssh to remote machines What possible reason can there be?
I have been using screen for almost 10 years now, is it worth switching? I know it's not much learning but why switching when screen is not broken? It feels like there's more important stuff I can learn.
If you're using screen, you're already sipping the terminal multiplexer coolaid. I think it's the paradigm that's more important than the specific program/implementation.
One tip I didn't see mentioned (though it's pretty common in tmux) is to use the default window layouts for organizing multiple panes. You do this with Ctrl + b followed by esc + . esc + 1: All windows take up equal space horizontally, and stretch the full vertical width esc + 2: All windows take up equal space vertically, and stretch the full vertical width esc + 3: The first window takes up half of the screen verti…
Just to nitpick a tiny bit, but you mean "panes" and not "windows". Tmux's terms can be slightly confusing and the difference is important in usage!
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I tried it for awhile, was puzzled by their choices of defaults, and ended up switching back to screen.
I prefer tmux to screen but the default key mappings took some getting used to. I've used it long enough that Ctrl-B and " / % for the screen splitting are natural to me now, but initially it was ... rough.
I have Caps Lock set to be Ctrl and tmux set to use Ctrl+a. For a vertical split, I have it mapped to Ctrl+a, |. For horizontal, Ctrl+a, -
It’s pretty flexible.
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I often run screen sessions inside tmux if I need to ssh to remote machines. tmux is beautiful and I say that as a screen veteran.
> I often run screen sessions inside tmux if I need to ssh to remote machines What possible reason can there be?
I usually make a point of setting different prefix keys in that case though.
One tip I didn't see mentioned (though it's pretty common in tmux) is to use the default window layouts for organizing multiple panes. You do this with Ctrl + b followed by esc + . esc + 1: All windows take up equal space horizontally, and stretch the full vertical width esc + 2: All windows take up equal space vertically, and stretch the full vertical width esc + 3: The first window takes up half of the screen verti…
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Tried tmux, then went back to screen. Tmux is for hipsters.
Totally agree. Also, screen is usually default installed on fresh distros. You have to go out of your way to install tmux
You have to type: apt install tmux. Or, whatever your distro of choice's package manager install line is. I'd hardly call that going out of one's way.
I have been using screen for almost 10 years now, is it worth switching? I know it's not much learning but why switching when screen is not broken? It feels like there's more important stuff I can learn.