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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:48:47PM -0600, Dale wrote |
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>> I read that but still would love to here of someone else's experience. |
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>> From that link tho, it sounds . . . interesting. |
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> I emerged tmux a couple of hours ago and have been playing around with |
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> it. It looks like fun. I have a 24" LCD monitor. I prefer console text |
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> mode for non-graphic stuff (e.g. email). Here's what I've done so |
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> far... |
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> 1) grep 1280 /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
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> This gives me a list of 1280xwhatever modes that my monitor supports. |
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> In my case, it's 1280x720 and 1280x960 and 1280x1024. |
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> 2) I entered the line |
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> CONSOLEFONT="lat1-14" |
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> in /etc/conf.d/consolefont |
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> 3) and also "video=1280x720" in the "append" line of /etc/lilo.conf |
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> 4) I entered the line |
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> set -g prefix C-a |
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> in ~/.tmux.conf because every site on the web that reviewed it said that |
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> was the way to go. Apparently, the developer uses {CONTROL-B} as the |
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> default hotkey to avoid colliding with {CONTROL-A} which screen uses. |
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> But everyone agrees that {CONTROL-B} is badly placed on the keyboard. |
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> 5) Then I rebooted |
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> The text console mode is now 1280 pixels x 720 pixels as per the |
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> "video=" parameter. The consolefont sets 8x14 (EGA) font. A bit of |
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> division gives... |
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> 1280 / 8 = 160 |
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> 720 / 14 = 51 plus a bit. |
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> So I have a 160 x 51 text console. I fired up tmux, and split the |
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> screen vertically. I now have 2 panes. The first one is 80 x 50 and |
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> the second is 79 x 50. This is after allowing for the vertical dividing |
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> line (one column) and the status bar at the bottom. The 14-pixel high |
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> font is quite nice. And on a 24" monitor it's very readable. If you |
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> prefer, you could go with the 16-pixel high (VGA) font. That gives 720 |
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> / 16 = 45 rows, or 44 working rows plus the status line. Both text |
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> pages are in "portrait mode", i.e. they're higher than they are wide. |
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> Sort of like 2 facing pages of a book. This could be useful for |
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> editing a program in one pane, and then compile and execute in another. |
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> If your eyesight is better than mine, you could try "video=1280x960" |
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> and 16-pixel high font, which will give a 160 x 60 text console. |
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> I like it. One of these days, when desktop monitors hit 30", I'll set |
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> the video to 1920x1080 and have 3 pages across.<G> |
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I installed it too. It seems a lot like screen to me and screen seems |
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to do what I need. I did hit ctrl a several times tho. lol I was |
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wondering what would happen if you started tmux then started a screen |
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session inside it. |
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My 22" LCD monitor is 1920x1080. Since my glasses are sort of old, I |
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would rather have a slightly smaller screen. I need new glasses for |
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sure. Anyway, I got everything set up for this size now. |
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I may play with tmux some more tho. I do like the little status thingy |
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at the bottom. I had that on screen on my old rig but forgot to copy it |
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over to my new rig. |
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Thanks for the post and the tips. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |