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Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by tomjakubowski »

rramadass wrote: post #116
tomjakubowski wrote: post #7

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Another option would be to split screen's roles of "terminal multiplexer" and "terminal detacher" into two programs: dvtm and abduco, respectively. I find that approach more flexible than screen/tmux, and it works better spanning work environments where I might or might not have tabs and splits built in to my window manager or terminal emulator. It's also nice to not have to give up C-a or C-b keybindings when I don'…

Better; use dvtm within Screen. This is what i do; one Screen session (fullscreen size) on my main dev box with each Screen window running its own dvtm instance. Thus each Screen window becomes a "workspace" (if needed, connected to a remote host) with dvtm-managed multiple tiles/shells. Flexible and not too complicated with all the power of Screen and the simplicity of dvtm. In fact, i use this setup even when worki…

I appreciate the simplicity of abduco when saving sessions of already TUI-intensive programs like MUD or IRC clients.

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Post by mkor »

fullstop wrote: post #133
mkor wrote: post #123

What about byobu built on top of tmux? Isn't it more straightforward?

I've not used byobu in about a decade, but it has crashed on me in the past. I've never had tmux crash. The other thing I didn't care w/byobu was that it had a clock in the bottom row. Once a minute my terminal window would light up telling me that something on that tab had changed.

Perhaps they've changed that issue since it doesn't happen to me at all. The only thing I'm missing though is possibility to save panes config. Unfortunately it is against the idea of reboot wiping everything down from the session...

Re: Tmux Tutorial

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Post by dustinkirkland »

fullstop wrote: post #133
mkor wrote: post #123

What about byobu built on top of tmux? Isn't it more straightforward?

I've not used byobu in about a decade, but it has crashed on me in the past. I've never had tmux crash. The other thing I didn't care w/byobu was that it had a clock in the bottom row. Once a minute my terminal window would light up telling me that something on that tab had changed.

Author/maintainer of Byobu here... Tell me more about your "byobu crash". Can you point me to any bug reports in either bugs.launchpad.net/byobu or github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu ? Thanks! @DustinKirkland

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Post by fullstop »

dustinkirkland wrote: post #164
fullstop wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've not used byobu in about a decade, but it has crashed on me in the past. I've never had tmux crash. The other thing I didn't care w/byobu was that it had a clock in the bottom row. Once a minute my terminal window would light up telling me that something on that tab had changed.

Author/maintainer of Byobu here... Tell me more about your "byobu crash". Can you point me to any bug reports in either bugs.launchpad.net/byobu or github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu ? Thanks! @DustinKirkland

Hi Dustin, thanks for the response. Unfortunately this was nearly a decade ago on Ubuntu server 10.04, and I'm sure that a lot has changed since then.

If I have the time, though, I'll fire up byobu and see if I can make it happen again. I tend to leave sessions open for many months and it wasn't something which happened on a regular basis, and I never experienced it with bare tmux.

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

petee wrote: post #18
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #6

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Tried tmux, then went back to screen. Tmux is for hipsters.

Meaning what? It's different?

I feel like tmux is styled more towards Mac users, with rich UI and verbose options.

screen is more akin to a unix program that borrows the styling of options from getopts.

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