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Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained

posted by martyb on Friday May 11 2018, @04:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the pimp-my-tmux dept.

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Tmux is a well-written terminal multiplexer. It allows access to multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It can do quite a lot when advanced configurations are taken into account. Here Gregory Pakosz' explains his pretty and versatile tmux status bar modifications line by line. His modifications look great and just work, combining form and function.

https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux/blob/master/README.md

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday May 11 2018, @05:11PM (3 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday May 11 2018, @05:11PM (#678486) Journal

    I don't care if the remote system doesn't have a GUI, my local one does. My terminal emulator sets a UUID in an environment variable, so I use a small script to ssh to remote systems that sets up a tmux session at the remote end with that name and uses autossh. If I move between networks, or reboot my local machine (or just restart the terminal program) then all of my connections are restored.

    I would love to have something that does less than tmux. It's always an uphill struggle to convince tmux that I don't want it to take over from my terminal emulator (for example, I need something in my tmux config to say 'hey, you're running in a terminal that supports unicode characters, which you could tell if you weren't stupid, just pass through UTF-8 characters from the remote system to my terminal'). I want something that creates a tty on the target system, buffers input whenever I'm not connected, sends it all when I am, and does nothing else. My local terminal has scrollback. My local terminal has the ability to create multiple windows and tabs. My local terminal has selection and copy-and-paste. My local terminal does all of the things that tmux tries to do, better than tmux does most of them.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday May 11 2018, @07:33PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 11 2018, @07:33PM (#678542) Journal

    What I would love is something like SSH that allows the "client" end to have a roving IP address. Like a mobile phone or Pixelbook that may be on various WiFi's, or cellular IP addresses.

    I looked at Mosh, but I don't think it does everything SSH does.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @08:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @08:32PM (#678558)

    abduco is what you want. I only use tmux on my OpenBSD machine because it's in base (and even there only in my urxvt-kuake script because tiling+virtual desktops mean I can just open another terminal, no need for tabs and all that), for everything else I use abduco.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday May 13 2018, @07:42AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Sunday May 13 2018, @07:42AM (#679122) Journal
      Thanks, that does look a lot more like what I want. It's a shame that the tmux and screen developers don't follow the UNIX philosophy and make the pane management and session management components separate.
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