Re: [gentoo-user] tmux first impression

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

I installed it too.  It seems a lot like screen to me and screen seems 
to do what I need.  I did hit ctrl a several times tho.  lol  I was 
wondering what would happen if you started tmux then started a screen 
session inside it.

My 22" LCD monitor is 1920x1080.  Since my glasses are sort of old, I 
would rather have a slightly smaller screen.  I need new glasses for 
sure.  Anyway, I got everything set up for this size now.

I may play with tmux some more tho.  I do like the little status thingy 
at the bottom.  I had that on screen on my old rig but forgot to copy it 
over to my new rig.

Thanks for the post and the tips.

Dale

:-)  :-)