Re: tmux layout heuristics (cf. xmonad)

2010-02-28 Thread Nicholas Marriott
Sending everything over a pipe from client to server and vice versa is slow, it would have to use shared memory. Although in reality there is no reason the client has to be involved for any implementation, the server has a copy of the tty fd so it can do whatever it likes. You could use another s

Re: tmux layout heuristics (cf. xmonad)

2010-02-28 Thread Nicholas Marriott
tmux does not tile panes automatically, it is up to you to tile them. You can always bind a key to "splitw; selectl some-layout" if you want it to happen every time you split. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:34:33PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Being accustomed to xmonad's layout model, I find the t

Re: tmux as login shell without chsh

2010-02-28 Thread Nicholas Marriott
You probably want to "exec tmux new-session", or use "tmux new-session -d" instead. Otherwise if it works it must be fine, shell script isn't meant to be elegant... :-) On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:39PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Because screen doesn't implement -c like a normal shell, I can