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I used to be a heavy tmux user on OSX but stopped since I started using xmonad. I was mostly using it to organise terminal windows and that was now xmonad's job

I used to be a heavy tmux user on OSX but stopped since I started using xmonad. I was mostly using it to organise terminal windows and that was now xmonad's job. (I run everything locally on my laptop. I prefer not having to worry about maintaining multiple machines) May I ask what you find yourself using tmux for within xmonad? I'm curious what I may be missing out on.

xenihn 10y ago
How do you use xmonad on OSX? From what I've seen, most people use native clients that re-create the functionality of xmonad.
- davidbanham 10y ago
  Oh, I don't. I switched back to Linux.
  - giggles_giggles 10y ago
    story of my life
tomjakubowski 10y ago
> I was mostly using it to organise terminal windows and that was now xmonad's job. A thing I only realized after switching to a tiling/dynamic window manager (i3), as a tmux user, is that tmux complects two things: * persistent pty sessions * pty multiplexing So even after switching to i3, tmux was still useful to me for the persistent sessions, to keep certain long-running programs running. I just stopped using the multiplexing. But then I learned about abduco [1] which, like dtach, only deals with terminal session management. I haven't looked back since. [1]: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/
colordrops 10y ago
I use tmux so that when I work remotely on my laptop I can connect to the same tmux session. Also, I like the vim and tmux plugins for seamless window navigation.
xelxebar 10y ago
The honest answer is that I keep tmux around because I'm used to it, though I do make good use of its persistent sessions and remote login interaction. Oh also, it's the one thing that gives me terminal emulator (st) buffer history.
Kareeeeem 10y ago
I use i3 with tmux. Tmux for me handles grouping of things I'm working on using sessions, every project or thing thing that I'm tinkering with gets a named session. I like that I can detach and leave a project in a state that I can easily come back to. I also prefer to have one terminal window and organize it with tmux. Much like I only open one browser and organize it with tabs. Leaving my actual workspaces uncluttered.

xenihn 10y ago

How do you use xmonad on OSX? From what I've seen, most people use native clients that re-create the functionality of xmonad.

davidbanham 10y ago
Oh, I don't. I switched back to Linux.
- giggles_giggles 10y ago
  story of my life

tomjakubowski 10y ago

> I was mostly using it to organise terminal windows and that was now xmonad's job. A thing I only realized after switching to a tiling/dynamic window manager (i3), as a tmux user, is that tmux complects two things: * persistent pty sessions * pty multiplexing So even after switching to i3, tmux was still useful to me for the persistent sessions, to keep certain long-running programs running. I just stopped using the multiplexing. But then I learned about abduco [1] which, like dtach, only deals with terminal session management. I haven't looked back since. [1]: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/

colordrops 10y ago

I use tmux so that when I work remotely on my laptop I can connect to the same tmux session. Also, I like the vim and tmux plugins for seamless window navigation.

xelxebar 10y ago

The honest answer is that I keep tmux around because I'm used to it, though I do make good use of its persistent sessions and remote login interaction. Oh also, it's the one thing that gives me terminal emulator (st) buffer history.

Kareeeeem 10y ago

I use i3 with tmux. Tmux for me handles grouping of things I'm working on using sessions, every project or thing thing that I'm tinkering with gets a named session. I like that I can detach and leave a project in a state that I can easily come back to. I also prefer to have one terminal window and organize it with tmux. Much like I only open one browser and organize it with tabs. Leaving my actual workspaces uncluttered.