I read the website and still don't understand what this solves. Doesn't tmux and zellij do all of these things that 'herdr' does?
Yes, but better.
Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
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Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the above person, and I usually max out around 5 although I have definitely had 10 or more at some point. Assuming I'm working on one repo, I'll have different worktrees, each for a related area. For example, one worktree for each of: ui, small bug fixes, feature A, feature B, and so on. Each worktree will have one active write agent, but I have a special docs/plans folder where I can have additional agents doing…
> I'll spin up a "quality pass" agent that will make sure all tests/lint etc. pass Why would you need an agent more than one time to create a script then use one command to launch it? What's the added value of the agent there?
The quality pass:
1. Merges in the dev branch
2. runs the various tests and static checks
3. Fixes any small issues with the context of what was fixed on this branch
4. Stops and reports if there's any major issues
Or
5. Handles the merge back to dev if all is green.
Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#133I get why folks use tmux/herdr, but I already use i3wm/Hyprland for window/workspace management, and want to have "shared first class windows" instead of dual binds of "super-based binds for i3 windows ... oh wait control-a based binds for tmux panes". Has anyone got a tool/setup that is tmux-like but the remote terminals/panes are all local/native windows?
ITerm2 has a really great tmux integration where you get native windows or tabs for tmux windows and the panes are really easy to interact with. Of course it’s macOS only but I use it on my MBP and ssh to attach to my tmux sessions from a secondary Mac (getting the same experience remotely) or my phone (without all the niceties, just normal tmux, but still usable)
Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#134I’ve been using tmux (with the wonderful iTerm2 integration) for almost a year now to manage agents as well as organize my workspaces. I initially wrote this off but looking closer I think I’m going to give a shot. My mobile experience is acceptable (Blink shell + tmux) but not ideal and the monitoring of agents is nice. Currently I rely on a hook+Pushover to alert me when my attention is needed which works but has not been without frustration.
Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mobile support?
If there was a mobile app or at least some kind of agent agnostic telegram integration then I'd be more interested.
There are two pluggins I've seen:
1- https://github.com/dcolinmorgan/herdr-remote Support Cloudflare, Telegram, .. quite buggy to me
2- https://github.com/0cv/herdr-mobile-relay Forked from the original one but improved and usable on phones, however the scope narrowed down to Cloudflare only
Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#136So I've tried to figure out why you might want to use this over Tmux, and essentially I think it comes to down to: - everything is mouse clickable - tmux style display-popups are used for friendly UI interactions everywhere - it has a UI for agents running in panes, with a cool status (idle/working) display - has opinionated defaults like automatic clipboard copy on mouse text select - makes nested sessions easier &…
It's better than tmux. I've used both extensively, there's no reason to use tmux again.
Yeah, I use tmux all day. Technically great, but the UX for tmux smux.
You end up having to wrap everything in adapter scripts because it is so verbose as well as so unmemorable, along with that, it has no built in help, not even -h
Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#137So I've tried to figure out why you might want to use this over Tmux, and essentially I think it comes to down to: - everything is mouse clickable - tmux style display-popups are used for friendly UI interactions everywhere - it has a UI for agents running in panes, with a cool status (idle/working) display - has opinionated defaults like automatic clipboard copy on mouse text select - makes nested sessions easier &…
You can enable mouse in tmux as well.
Claude now hijacks your mouse in tmux!
Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#138> Popular with engineers from... (bunch of logos) > Individual engineers, not company endorsements. Bold haha. Maybe that's fine with the disclaimer, but feels like lawyer-bait.
I think this is actually the norm.
Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#139So I've tried to figure out why you might want to use this over Tmux, and essentially I think it comes to down to: - everything is mouse clickable - tmux style display-popups are used for friendly UI interactions everywhere - it has a UI for agents running in panes, with a cool status (idle/working) display - has opinionated defaults like automatic clipboard copy on mouse text select - makes nested sessions easier &…
It's better than tmux. I've used both extensively, there's no reason to use tmux again.
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Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
#140So I've tried to figure out why you might want to use this over Tmux, and essentially I think it comes to down to: - everything is mouse clickable - tmux style display-popups are used for friendly UI interactions everywhere - it has a UI for agents running in panes, with a cool status (idle/working) display - has opinionated defaults like automatic clipboard copy on mouse text select - makes nested sessions easier &…
I wanted to mention that `zmx` is a beautiful piece of minimal software that basically has gotten rid of my tmux and zellij use. Uses a ghostty-based terminal emulator for each session, supports pretty much all of these features by leveraging ghostty. I truly don’t see the benefit of something like herdr over this minimal, robust setup. If I really wanted a lot of customization for AI assistants, I’d consider using O…
I don't understand what it does. The homepage says it doesn't provide windows, panes or splits. What is it used for?