[ale] Tmux, where have you been alll my life?

[DJ-Pfulio]

Just looked at that tmux cheat sheet.  Seems like a bunch of complexity and keys
just to do something a push of a mouse will handled when using multiple xterms
with focus-follows-mouse setup in the WM.

I've got to be missing something. For years people I respect have been crazy for
screen or tmux, but I just don't see the point.
* My connections are solid, disconnects just don't happen.
* I know how to use 'tee' so monitoring running jobs from anywhere isn't hard.
* My desktop can be accessed from anywhere in the world, so anything running
there will be seen as it progresses (GUI stuff).
* I know how to use batch processing (TaskSpooler) and 'at' for long running
tasks that need to be queued.
* screen layouts are handled by normal X/Windows resources and WM settings.
Hadar xterms open upper left. Romulus xterms open lower right. ... have settings
for those things for decades.

I've got to be missing something that tmux does. Right? Please convert me.

I learn best by seeing - is there a great youtube video showing off tmux that I
should watch?



On 09/14/2016 07:32 AM, John Wallom wrote:
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> On 09/13/2016 07:30 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
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>>     *From: *"Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
>>     *To: *ale at ale.org
>>     *Cc: *tech at golug.org
>>     *Sent: *Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:10:56 PM
>>     *Subject: *Re: [ale] Tmux, where have you been alll my life?
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>>     I would have switched from screen to tmux years ago, except I can't
>>     remember a decent sized subset of the tmux commands, and I couldn't find
>>     a good tmux cheat sheet. Anyone know where I can find a good tmux
>>     cheatsheet?
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>> Cheat sheet is just one thing you need.  A good conf file is required too.
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