[ale] Tmux, where have you been alll my life?

[chip]

DJ,

  I can understand your arguments.  For local terminals I agree a
tabbed/pane terminal emulator such as "Terminator" is the way to go.  For
remote persistent connections tmux is great.  It's like having those tabs
and panes on a remote device that you can disconnect or re-connect to
without having to log in multiple times....its just always there.   One
pane for working on a file, another for restarting the process, another for
watching logs, another for something else.

My primary use case is connecting to irc, watching various logs, and access
to work's text email.  I connect to the bastion host, reconnect to my tmux
session and there's everything I need to see with a single connection.

But hey, everyone has different needs and workflows.  Find the tools that
work for you and rock on!

--chip

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:08 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> Just looked at that tmux cheat sheet.  Seems like a bunch of complexity
> and keys
> just to do something a push of a mouse will handled when using multiple
> xterms
> with focus-follows-mouse setup in the WM.
>
> I've got to be missing something. For years people I respect have been
> crazy for
> screen or tmux, but I just don't see the point.
> * My connections are solid, disconnects just don't happen.
> * I know how to use 'tee' so monitoring running jobs from anywhere isn't
> hard.
> * My desktop can be accessed from anywhere in the world, so anything
> running
> there will be seen as it progresses (GUI stuff).
> * I know how to use batch processing (TaskSpooler) and 'at' for long
> running
> tasks that need to be queued.
> * screen layouts are handled by normal X/Windows resources and WM settings.
> Hadar xterms open upper left. Romulus xterms open lower right. ... have
> settings
> for those things for decades.
>
> I've got to be missing something that tmux does. Right? Please convert me.
>
> I learn best by seeing - is there a great youtube video showing off tmux
> that I
> should watch?
>
>
>
> On 09/14/2016 07:32 AM, John Wallom wrote:
> >
> > On 09/13/2016 07:30 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------
> >>
> >>     *From: *"Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> >>     *To: *ale at ale.org
> >>     *Cc: *tech at golug.org
> >>     *Sent: *Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:10:56 PM
> >>     *Subject: *Re: [ale] Tmux, where have you been alll my life?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     I would have switched from screen to tmux years ago, except I can't
> >>     remember a decent sized subset of the tmux commands, and I couldn't
> find
> >>     a good tmux cheat sheet. Anyone know where I can find a good tmux
> >>     cheatsheet?
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheat sheet is just one thing you need.  A good conf file is required
> too.
> >>
>
>
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