<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:08 AM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":s3" class="a3s aXjCH m157289b4d3d6330b">Just looked at that tmux cheat sheet. Seems like a bunch of complexity and keys<br>
just to do something a push of a mouse will handled when using multiple xterms<br>
with focus-follows-mouse setup in the WM.<br>
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I've got to be missing something. For years people I respect have been crazy for<br>
screen or tmux, but I just don't see the point.<br>
* My connections are solid, disconnects just don't happen.<br>
* I know how to use 'tee' so monitoring running jobs from anywhere isn't hard.<br>
* My desktop can be accessed from anywhere in the world, so anything running<br>
there will be seen as it progresses (GUI stuff).<br>
* I know how to use batch processing (TaskSpooler) and 'at' for long running<br>
tasks that need to be queued.<br>
* screen layouts are handled by normal X/Windows resources and WM settings.<br>
Hadar xterms open upper left. Romulus xterms open lower right. ... have settings<br>
for those things for decades.<br>
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I've got to be missing something that tmux does. Right? Please convert me.<br>
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I learn best by seeing - is there a great youtube video showing off tmux that I<br>
should watch?<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Connections do fail. I don't care how stable they are 99.9999999% of the time. Do you want that rare occurrence to screw up a vitally important operation? If not, use a multiplexer.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In general, it's nice to have a multiplexer so that work can simply be resumed when moving from one computer to another. They also offer much greater flexibility over a single connection and a single terminal window.<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.sumners.info/" target="_blank">http://james.sumners.info/</a> (technical profile)<br><a href="http://jrfom.com/" target="_blank">http://jrfom.com/</a> (personal site)<br><a href="http://haplo.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://haplo.bandcamp.com/</a> (music)</div>
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