Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
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#2Hey HN,
I'm a long-time user of i3 (now sway). I wrote this tool to provide the elegance of i3 to terminal users everywhere, especially for people like myself who sometimes use a non-i3 wm or no window manager at all (e.g. when testing code on a bare-bones raspberry pi).
Cheers!
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#3This looks awesome!
The modifier key seems to be Alt, which is also default on desktop i3 windows manager. I wonder if it's going to interfere - eg. pressing Alt+Enter will simultaneously open new window both in multiplexer and on my desktop?
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#4Congratulations! Works pretty good on my Linux machine.
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#5Does this work inside an Emacs shell?
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#6Hey HN, I'm a long-time user of i3 (now sway). I wrote this tool to provide the elegance of i3 to terminal users everywhere, especially for people like myself who sometimes use a non-i3 wm or no window manager at all (e.g. when testing code on a bare-bones raspberry pi). Cheers!
Nice work!
This is exactly what I hoped tmux was when I first tried it.
Will definitely be following this.
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#7This looks awesome! The modifier key seems to be Alt, which is also default on desktop i3 windows manager. I wonder if it's going to interfere - eg. pressing Alt+Enter will simultaneously open new window both in multiplexer and on my desktop?
I think the "escape"-design og screen/tmux is likely better for terminal multiplexing - other "hot-keys" is too likely to collide with terminal programs (never mind window managers/desktops)?
I suppose "super"/"windows"-key combos might be a bit safe from terminal applications - otoh they're likely to collide with window managers...
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#8This looks awesome! The modifier key seems to be Alt, which is also default on desktop i3 windows manager. I wonder if it's going to interfere - eg. pressing Alt+Enter will simultaneously open new window both in multiplexer and on my desktop?
I think the "escape"-design og screen/tmux is likely better for terminal multiplexing - other "hot-keys" is too likely to collide with terminal programs (never mind window managers/desktops)? I suppose "super"/"windows"-key combos might be a bit safe from terminal applications - otoh they're likely to collide with window managers...
> I suppose "super"/"windows"-key combos might be a bit safe from terminal applications - otoh they're likely to collide with window managers...
AFAIK terminal usually doesn't support super/windows key at all.
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#9Hey HN, I'm a long-time user of i3 (now sway). I wrote this tool to provide the elegance of i3 to terminal users everywhere, especially for people like myself who sometimes use a non-i3 wm or no window manager at all (e.g. when testing code on a bare-bones raspberry pi). Cheers!
Looks awesome, thanks for sharing! I've been using Byoyu[0] which has a similar goal, but I'm keen on trying out. Even though I've been a long-time tmux user, as a developer I don't even know where I would start if I wanted to build my own terminal multiplexer. Can you share some resources etc on what could a good starting point if I want to explore this as a side-project?
Re: Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3
#10Be cautious when binding Alt key by default.
In some terminal programs they report Alt key differently (use showkey -a) so it may lead confusions.