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Nice, although tmux -S /tmp/pairprog and tmux -S /tmp/pairprog attach isn't that hard to type :-)

• pyre 13y ago
  In this example, you are both connected to the same session. Each client can't focus on a separate window. It looks something like this: +-------------+ | tmux server | +-------------+ / +---------+ | session | +---------+ / \ +---------+ +---------+ | client0 | | client1 | +---------+ +---------+ - `tmux server` is the 'backend' process listening on /tmp/pairprog - `client0` and `client1` are the 'frontend' processes connecting to the socket /tmp/pairprog. - `session` is the collection of windows that you are using. The issue is that the currently active/focused window is an attribute of the session, meaning that all connected clients are always focused on the same window. What if you want to have each client focus on a separate window? This is behaviour that you get by default in screen, but you have to work a little more for in tmux. The script is just a simple way to use session grouping, which would look like this: +-------------+ | tmux server | +-------------+ / \ +---------+ +-----------+ | session |=| session-1 | +---------+ +-----------+ | | +---------+ +---------+ | client0 | | client1 | +---------+ +---------+ Note the '=' between the sessions. I'm using this to denote that `session` and `session-1` are grouped, meaning that they share the same windows. Since each client is connected to a different session, they can switch windows independently.
  • simcop2387 13y ago
    It's one reason I hadn't used tmux before, i couldn't figure out a nice way to get this. I love to use screen this way on multimonitor setups, and tmux's other windowing features would make this awesome.