Re: [gentoo-user] tmux vs. screen

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian
> CROUZAT did opine thusly:
>
>
>> On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
>>>
>>> <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux
>>>> has a status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that
>>>> with screen, too, but I've never bothered, because it seemed too much
>>>> effort to learn and it just seemed flashy and pointless. I realised how
>>>> mistaken I was within a couple of hours of using tmux. It has
>>>> absolutely changed the way I use terminal multiplexers, and so I spent
>>>> several hours the next day configuring mine and getting the colours and
>>>> stuff perfect.
>>>>
>>> I have not used tmux but I agree completely, I hate to use screen
>>> without the status bar. I'm using one I copied from here or the forums
>>> or the gentoo wiki or someplace out there in WWW land. (Thanks to the
>>> person who made it, whoever you are)
>>>
>>> Add this to your .screenrc:
>>> caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c"
>>>
>> Also, amongst other things,>=tmux-1.3 has mouse support.
>> You can scroll using your mouse in copy mode and use your mouse to select
>> one of the splitted panes of your active window. You can also break/join
>> panes in and out the active window and it has awesome predefined layouts.
>> I'll add that tmux has a readable and even understandable man page
>>
>                             ^^^^^^^^          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^
>
> I'm sold. 4 words, that's all it took.
>
>

That makes me want to try it too.  Most man pages are like Greek to me.  
I use screen pretty often, especially when OOo is compiling.  Nothing 
worse than starting that thing in a Konsole and realizing you need to 
log out about 6 hours in.  o-O

Dale

:-)  :-)