tmux article

[Mark Volkmann]

My article on tmux is finally out. You can find it at http://sett.ociweb.com/sett/settJan2013.html.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

[Nathan Neff]

This is cool -- I'm a big fan of Tiling Window managers, (my favorite
being wmii).

A short plug about wmii is that you can install it easy on Ubuntu.
Back to tmux though --
I work mainly on Macs as well as using SSH, so I'm tempted to use tmux because
I don't want to use a different Window Manager on my Linux VMs, and it
would be very nice
to keep a terminal session open on the Linux VM to automagically have
it ready to go
without having to re-create sessions.

[Nathan Neff]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Nathan Neff <natha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is cool -- I'm a big fan of Tiling Window managers, (my favorite
> being wmii).

The reason I mention wmii is that it also has the concept of "views", similar
to Tmux's "windows". Users can define multiple views. A view can have multiple
programs running in it, similar to Tmux's panes. Different views can
have the *same*
applications running in them. Below is an illustration:

View 1: "Code"

Text Editor | Terminal

View 2: "Test"

Text Editor | Firefox

View 3: "Debug"

Text Editor | Firefox
------------
| terminal

Anyway, thanks for the post about tmux. I liked GNU Screen
better than tmux last time I tried tmux, because of something with GNU Screen
handling the "full screen" mode better. I read Mark's notes about
the fullscreen, and maybe tmux fixed it. We'll see!