On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> :-) :-)
I've just taken a day to play with it, if only a little, yesterday and
I have to say, I do like it so far, but I'll have to put some work
into mapping keys to match what I'm used to from using both screen and
ratpoison together. The lack of <escape key>+space to jump to the next
by default was the biggest catch for me so far, and I also generally
use <key>+w for a rapid reminder of what's where when I'm hopping
through larger numbers of terminals, a habit that slows me down a lot
when I walk face first into a selection menu rather than just a quick
flash of information, so it's a habit that would need to change. I
don't often use the split, even screen's horizontal, as it doesn't do
much good for me on a little 9in screen.
In the end, it's very promising, has a lot of great information that'd
take a fair amount of configuring to get from screen (And as much as I
don't like the binding for that menu, I do like the feature), but
would require me either breaking habits or working around them with
the configuration quite a bit. I think, were it not for ratpoison
taking screen's shortcut keys wholesale with only a few additions, I'd
be a lot quicker to pick up tmux. As it is, I suspect I'm as stuck on
my habits as a heavy windows user is theirs. Screen on it's default of
control+a, ratpoison on a straight windows key tap.
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Joshua M. Murphy
