From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PvNyZ-0003dk-Vr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:54:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 459001C071; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 05:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143F91C071 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 05:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so1021625ywl.40 for ; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:53:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z9zMFSUsKIljDYDAbxKWpa5W/vjhaZeANcW+bu8hvQA=; b=aJLZWVwykIgJmWmGfK7Qz0mazk9Eo2rYorgtyhbbpYjiURtGnipB3DJrL5PLuOBOK/ FUTC426i0UWuj+AJPnBiM5FW2O+kLvgL/2PV1jhxYu+dc7cSKLPl8LaBXUiYDUMvZ2Nx QL5gTkPM9VOnYK9WumXGBQe7Hk78wiAip48/8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dGzqXLWbFwmRSfetZmXp4g3hPqHHbxgW0sAoAaC6HmI7zjHLNkfYE67W3UU5ZlXA4t GfAMwgQgKGVIsnFPSyf8HZUqNrMErtlFdFTmYpPXrit0g7UkUgoj6wXZcRTwqR7JX0ss rvjoBpIQ5z5gdUTOWKDZaasHk1+ow6gbkJrmw= Received: by 10.90.61.8 with SMTP id j8mr229568aga.76.1299218005324; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-94-193.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 35sm2473469ano.11.2011.03.03.21.53.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:53:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D707E4D.6070405@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:53:17 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110225 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tmux first impression References: <4D6D4168.5010500@gmail.com> <201103012121.33930.wonko@wonkology.org> <201103022002.04716.daniel.heemann@gmx.de> <201103022055.08033.wonko@wonkology.org> <4D6EC9AA.4020407@gmail.com> <4D6ECC3A.7030608@wonkology.org> <4D6EE56F.8010500@gmail.com> <20110304051505.GA4215@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20110304051505.GA4215@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4e153f43d6b6f281dec85dd65cfded44 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. > > 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 :-) :-)