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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 to do |
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> what I need. I did hit ctrl a several times tho. lol I was wondering what |
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> would happen if you started tmux then started a screen session inside it. |
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> My 22" LCD monitor is 1920x1080. Since my glasses are sort of old, I would |
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> rather have a slightly smaller screen. I need new glasses for sure. |
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> 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 at |
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> the bottom. I had that on screen on my old rig but forgot to copy it over |
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> to my new rig. |
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> Thanks for the post and the tips. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I've just taken a day to play with it, if only a little, yesterday and |
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I have to say, I do like it so far, but I'll have to put some work |
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into mapping keys to match what I'm used to from using both screen and |
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ratpoison together. The lack of <escape key>+space to jump to the next |
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by default was the biggest catch for me so far, and I also generally |
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use <key>+w for a rapid reminder of what's where when I'm hopping |
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through larger numbers of terminals, a habit that slows me down a lot |
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when I walk face first into a selection menu rather than just a quick |
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flash of information, so it's a habit that would need to change. I |
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don't often use the split, even screen's horizontal, as it doesn't do |
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much good for me on a little 9in screen. |
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In the end, it's very promising, has a lot of great information that'd |
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take a fair amount of configuring to get from screen (And as much as I |
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don't like the binding for that menu, I do like the feature), but |
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would require me either breaking habits or working around them with |
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the configuration quite a bit. I think, were it not for ratpoison |
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taking screen's shortcut keys wholesale with only a few additions, I'd |
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be a lot quicker to pick up tmux. As it is, I suspect I'm as stuck on |
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my habits as a heavy windows user is theirs. Screen on it's default of |
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control+a, ratpoison on a straight windows key tap. |
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