[gentoo-user] screen, screen+byobu, or tmux?

[gentoo-user] screen, screen+byobu, or tmux?

[Pandu Poluan]

So, anyone got any experience using screen and screen+byobu and tmux?

What's your opinion in general of the three alternatives?

Rgds,


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Re: [gentoo-user] screen, screen+byobu, or tmux?

[Jesús J. Guerrero Botella]

2011/4/17 Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>:
> So, anyone got any experience using screen and screen+byobu and tmux?
>
> What's your opinion in general of the three alternatives?

tmux seems to be much more actively developed these days. That's my
perception at least.

A fact is that its codebase is lighter and simpler, and it has been
able to do vertical splits for a long time. I don't know if that
feature finally merged (in an usable status, I mean) in screen.




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Re: [gentoo-user] screen, screen+byobu, or tmux?

[Stroller]

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On 17/4/2011, at 5:39am, Pandu Poluan wrote:

> So, anyone got any experience using screen and screen+byobu and tmux?

tmux, as discussed here at length in the past.

Useful features include [1].

Because tmux is a single server daemon and you can run tmux commands from both inside and outside of it, without needing to go into "command mode", you can do useful things like:

  for host in server1 server2 server3
  do
    tmux new-window -d "ssh $host" 
  done

Then using `tmux synchronize-panes on` you can `emerge -pv world` (or whatever) to all hosts.

This is just one example. Maybe you need italics support, or something else instead. tmux is better than screen lots of minor ways, that are cumulatively significant IMO. 

tmux "doesn't need" byobu because it's better than screen in the first place, although it does need some customisation, IMO (see attached). If you have a window manager that provides a clock, then having it also in your screen / tmux status line is just a distraction and a waste of space; likewise CPU meters are always so, IMO.

Stroller.



[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20110417043659.GA10986%40carbon.vonhaugwitz.com&forum_name=tmux-users


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set -g prefix C-a
unbind C-b
bind C-a send-prefix

setw -g mode-keys vi
set-option -g status-keys vi

set-option -g status-justify centre
set -g status-bg black
set -g status-fg green
set-window-option -g window-status-current-bg green
set-window-option -g window-status-current-fg black

set -g status-right '#[fg=blue][#S]'
set -g status-left-length 20
set -g status-left '#[fg=blue]#T'
#set -g status-left '#[fg=blue]#(hostname)'

set-window-option -g mode-bg green

set -g message-bg green
#set -g message-fg white