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Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Re: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Post by esseph »

dpflan wrote: post #34
alecsm wrote: post #17

I had my tmux customized to the point I forgot how to use it on a clean install which is a problem when I'm sshing into a server. I wish it had better defaults but now I run it as is. After a while you get used to it. The only thing I always have to change is the mouse scroll and my brain cannot retain the exact command.

Do you have a "dot files" repo? It would contain things like this, config files for tmux, zsh, , etc.

That may work for a server or two but doesn't really pan out for fleet management.

Re: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Post by vessenes »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #25
orbital-decay wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many separate session persistence daemons: dtach, zmx, hauntty, shpool, diss, abduco - take your pick

screen's another nice one. been using it for 25 years, so far so good

I used screen until like 2010 or so -- but you triggered me to look back at it again today. One nicety there now is that you can easily get a dump of what's showing in the pty with screen -S -X hardcopy. This is actually somewhat hard to do in tmux, but it's a thing you want your AI agents to do all the time. I'm curious if claude / codex are comfortable with screen, I'll check it out.

Re: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Post by throwa356262 »

dpflan wrote: post #34
alecsm wrote: post #17

I had my tmux customized to the point I forgot how to use it on a clean install which is a problem when I'm sshing into a server. I wish it had better defaults but now I run it as is. After a while you get used to it. The only thing I always have to change is the mouse scroll and my brain cannot retain the exact command.

Do you have a "dot files" repo? It would contain things like this, config files for tmux, zsh, , etc.

Is it not just easier to accept the default config?

Re: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Post by racl101 »

heatmiser wrote: post #11

I read "tmux 2: mouse-free productivity" in a weekend years ago and it may be, pound-for-pound, one of the more impactful books on my productivity. Seems like they are keeping up-to-date too: https://bookshop.org/p/books/tmux-3-productive-mouse-free-de...

Thanks for the reference.

Re: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Post by verall »

imankulov wrote: post #49

I left tmux for zellij after several unsuccessful attempts to get Shift+Enter working. Was quite impressed initially and invested weeks in building new muscle memory, but somehow Zellij crashed with panic more than once, leaving all my processes orphaned. Decided to go back to tmux, and found a simple fix for my Shift+Enter issue. In case anyone is looking for it, the fix is "bind-key -T root S-Enter send-keys C-j" b…

> In case anyone is looking for it, the fix is "bind-key -T root S-Enter send-keys C-j"

I was looking, thank you!

Re: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Post by racl101 »

tosti wrote: post #36
heatmiser wrote: post #11

I read "tmux 2: mouse-free productivity" in a weekend years ago and it may be, pound-for-pound, one of the more impactful books on my productivity. Seems like they are keeping up-to-date too: https://bookshop.org/p/books/tmux-3-productive-mouse-free-de...

The book doesn't mention the author of tmux or its origins even once :(

I believe that book would be called: "History of Tmux"

Re: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

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Post by tombert »

I almost never bother theming things on my computer; I usually don't really care about how things look and I can't be bothered with it.

I have two exceptions to this: NeoVim and tmux.

tmux in particular looks very ugly out of the box; I'm not sure why they decided to have a bright green bar on the bottom (presumably to be high-contrast in a low color terminal), but I really hate staring at it all day (since I kind of live in tmux most of the day on both my work and personal computer). I have it set as close as I can to the Wombat color scheme that's built into emacs (and which can be easily added to Vim), because I personally have always felt that that was the most pleasant theme to stare at for long periods of time.

Another thing I do is set the prefix key to backtick. I have no idea why I started doing this, but at this point I'm too geriatric to change, and I still greatly prefer this over ctrl-b. The only issue I've had is when I need to do code blocks in markdown, but I've just gotten used to hitting backtick twice when I need to actually use a backtick.

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