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Care to clarify "screen is voodoo. tmux isn't."? That's pretty meaningless. The overall design to tmux is quite a bit cleaner, and (having poked around in thei

Care to clarify "screen is voodoo. tmux isn't."? That's pretty meaningless. The overall design to tmux is quite a bit cleaner, and (having poked around in their respective sources), I know which I'd be more likely to contribute patches to. It took screen forever to get vertical splits (are they still an unofficial patch?), whereas tmux already has dwm/XMonad-style layouts. tmux is also included in the standard OpenBSD install. Make what of that you will.

indigoviolet 17y ago
Compare my tmux.conf (http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2) and my screenrc (http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5). Granted, my screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste and default stuff from lots of places, but that's actually the point: I could read through the tmux manpage and set up tmux the way I wanted, without cobbling a conf file together from the blog posts and mailing list emails of wiser people.
- thenduks 17y ago
  Not being familiar with tmux at all I tried to simply drop in your config (changing only the default path) but all I get is syntax errors at every turn (unknown option status-justify at line 4). tmux 0.8 (20090604-0818) Which is in the Ubuntu 9.10 repos. I'll take any suggestions, but I'm happy with screen :)
  - indigoviolet 17y ago
    my tmux is cvs. You can just comment out the options that fail, but I recommend getting a newer release. It builds really painlessly.
    - thenduks 17y ago
      Yea, noticed the newest is 1.1... I'd prefer to find a debian package for it rather than building it though, I often need to rebuild machines and I always regret adding steps like this (I can just stick with screen since it's everywhere for free). I'll see what I can find... Thanks. Edit: 1.1 package: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tmux/tmux_1.1-1_i386.deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tmux/tmux_1.1-1_... Some commands are still not working (pane-active-border-bg and capture-pane, it seems) but I can take a closer look at those after playing with it for a while and getting comfortable.
      - indigoviolet 17y ago
        yeah, I built from cvs specifically for those commands.
      - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
        http://packages.debian.org/sid/tmux http://packages.debian.org/sid/tmux lists the deps and different arch's too.

indigoviolet 17y ago

Compare my tmux.conf (http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2 http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2) and my screenrc (http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5 http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5). Granted, my screenrc is a hotchpotch of cut-and-paste and default stuff from lots of places, but that's actually the point: I could read through the tmux manpage and set up tmux the way I wanted, without cobbling a conf file together from the blog posts and mailing list emails of wiser people.

thenduks 17y ago
Not being familiar with tmux at all I tried to simply drop in your config (changing only the default path) but all I get is syntax errors at every turn (unknown option status-justify at line 4). tmux 0.8 (20090604-0818) Which is in the Ubuntu 9.10 repos. I'll take any suggestions, but I'm happy with screen :)
- indigoviolet 17y ago
  my tmux is cvs. You can just comment out the options that fail, but I recommend getting a newer release. It builds really painlessly.
  - thenduks 17y ago
    Yea, noticed the newest is 1.1... I'd prefer to find a debian package for it rather than building it though, I often need to rebuild machines and I always regret adding steps like this (I can just stick with screen since it's everywhere for free). I'll see what I can find... Thanks. Edit: 1.1 package: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tmux/tmux_1.1-1_i386.deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tmux/tmux_1.1-1_... Some commands are still not working (pane-active-border-bg and capture-pane, it seems) but I can take a closer look at those after playing with it for a while and getting comfortable.
    - indigoviolet 17y ago
      yeah, I built from cvs specifically for those commands.
    - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
      http://packages.debian.org/sid/tmux http://packages.debian.org/sid/tmux lists the deps and different arch's too.