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Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

#11

Post by Lammy »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #10

again... 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.

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.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by kettro »

yur3i__ wrote: post #9
colecut wrote: post #7

Earlier 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

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.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

#15

Post by dvtrn »

kettro wrote: post #14
yur3i__ wrote: post #9

Earlier 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

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?

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

#16

Post by ohyeshedid »

yur3i__ wrote: post #9
colecut wrote: post #7

Earlier 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

tmux isn't a window manager.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

#17

Post by thrownaway954 »

Lammy wrote: post #11
thrownaway954 wrote: post #10

again... 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.

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.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

#18

Post by yur3i__ »

kettro wrote: post #14
yur3i__ wrote: post #9

Earlier 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

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.

Actually yeah you are right. I use tmux for running a doom server with my friends. Sorry I forgot about that because I don't generally need to log into it

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

#19

Post by t0astbread »

sneak wrote: post #12

Do not pipe random scripts from the internet into | sudo bash

This can be generalized into "do not install random programs from the internet onto your machine".

Familiarize yourself with the program, the author and the supply chain, then you can also `curl | bash` safely.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

#20

Post by t0astbread »

I only had a quick glance at the source code and my Go is terrible so forgive me if I've misunderstood something.

But am I right in the assumption that this includes a proxy that acts as a sort of "middleware" layer for the terminal without explicit support from either the shell or the terminal?

If so, this might have a lot more potential than it seems. Imagine how much you could do with "terminal middleware"!

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