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tmux in mintty ?

by mkhnews 5y ago

tmux in mintty ?

eatonphil 5y ago
Yeah that's an option but I can't stand Cygwin UX. tmux and mosh for native Windows would both be awesome.
- csdvrx 5y ago
  Try sixel-tmux compiled with msys2 in Windows-Terminal: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/tmux.exe https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/tmux.exe Or compile it yourself using MinGW64 : after installing from msys2.org, pacman -S base-devel etc It works fine here. I have a Windows Terminal settings to start sixel-tmux instead of bash, using script to provide a pty: just have the command line be: C:/msys64/usr/bin/env.exe MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict MSYSTEM=MSYS /usr/bin/script -c /usr/bin/tmux /dev/null
  - rashil2000 5y ago
    Wow, I'd been dying to make tmux work on WT. I couldn't get your tmux.exe executable to work (it froze WT, in both bash and cmd). However, the script method works!
    - csdvrx 5y ago
      I thought you might be having this issue, which is why I tried to be very explicit. It's due to a cygwin and how /dev/cons* are different from /dev/pty* cf https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244878.html https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244878.html I've tried to explain that a bit better in server-client.c (check line 251) to give the user a clue of what's happening with *cause = xstrdup(c->ttyname) Unfortunately, even in 2021, properly configuring a terminal can be complicated. That's why sixel-tmux page has a step-by-step configuration guide, and why I often provide config files in other projects like https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow : if needed, check https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow/blob/main/config/windows-terminal.json https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow/blob/main/config/wi... even if I need to update it that should give you a good base to start tweaking from. I strongly encourage you to check your configuration with the steps suggest on the sixel-tmux page, or at least the minimal set of steps shown in http://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-testsuite http://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-testsuite (which I should update to show how font change should work, with sixels being resize to be kept in perfect alignment with the text, as done in mintty, as several people seem to believe it's a sixel limitation)
      - rashil2000 5y ago
        Oh, I apologize! I was under the impression that your executable would work without the /usr/bin/script workaround. My bad! I was aware of the Cygwin's tmux quirk, but not the script workaround. Thanks again for the detailed help!
- rashil2000 5y ago
  Although there's no mosh-server, some people actually ported the mosh-client[1] to Windows using C#. This client is currently being used in the popular Fluent Terminal for Windows[2]. [1]: https://github.com/jumptrading/mosh-windows-wrappers https://github.com/jumptrading/mosh-windows-wrappers [2]: https://github.com/felixse/fluentterminal https://github.com/felixse/fluentterminal

tmux in mintty ?

eatonphil 5y ago

Yeah that's an option but I can't stand Cygwin UX. tmux and mosh for native Windows would both be awesome.

csdvrx 5y ago
Try sixel-tmux compiled with msys2 in Windows-Terminal: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/tmux.exe https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/tmux.exe Or compile it yourself using MinGW64 : after installing from msys2.org, pacman -S base-devel etc It works fine here. I have a Windows Terminal settings to start sixel-tmux instead of bash, using script to provide a pty: just have the command line be: C:/msys64/usr/bin/env.exe MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict MSYSTEM=MSYS /usr/bin/script -c /usr/bin/tmux /dev/null
- rashil2000 5y ago
  Wow, I'd been dying to make tmux work on WT. I couldn't get your tmux.exe executable to work (it froze WT, in both bash and cmd). However, the script method works!
  - csdvrx 5y ago
    I thought you might be having this issue, which is why I tried to be very explicit. It's due to a cygwin and how /dev/cons* are different from /dev/pty* cf https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244878.html https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244878.html I've tried to explain that a bit better in server-client.c (check line 251) to give the user a clue of what's happening with *cause = xstrdup(c->ttyname) Unfortunately, even in 2021, properly configuring a terminal can be complicated. That's why sixel-tmux page has a step-by-step configuration guide, and why I often provide config files in other projects like https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow : if needed, check https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow/blob/main/config/windows-terminal.json https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow/blob/main/config/wi... even if I need to update it that should give you a good base to start tweaking from. I strongly encourage you to check your configuration with the steps suggest on the sixel-tmux page, or at least the minimal set of steps shown in http://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-testsuite http://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-testsuite (which I should update to show how font change should work, with sixels being resize to be kept in perfect alignment with the text, as done in mintty, as several people seem to believe it's a sixel limitation)
    - rashil2000 5y ago
      Oh, I apologize! I was under the impression that your executable would work without the /usr/bin/script workaround. My bad! I was aware of the Cygwin's tmux quirk, but not the script workaround. Thanks again for the detailed help!
rashil2000 5y ago
Although there's no mosh-server, some people actually ported the mosh-client[1] to Windows using C#. This client is currently being used in the popular Fluent Terminal for Windows[2]. [1]: https://github.com/jumptrading/mosh-windows-wrappers https://github.com/jumptrading/mosh-windows-wrappers [2]: https://github.com/felixse/fluentterminal https://github.com/felixse/fluentterminal