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Posted by speckx 4 days ago

Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)(hamvocke.com)
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troupo 4 days ago|
I ended up AI-slopcoding myself a small shell script for the few things I need from tmux: https://gist.github.com/dmitriid/523a5229c9a17a1cf4ad9182f4c...

I just couldn't be bothered to remember all the prefixed commands :)

jackbravo 3 days ago||
Another easy to use option is using byobu (https://github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu).
snag 3 days ago|
I have been using byobu for almost a decade now and it never let me down.
tombert 4 days ago||
I almost never bother theming things on my computer; I usually don't really care about how things look and I can't be bothered with it.

I have two exceptions to this: NeoVim and tmux.

tmux in particular looks very ugly out of the box; I'm not sure why they decided to have a bright green bar on the bottom (presumably to be high-contrast in a low color terminal), but I really hate staring at it all day (since I kind of live in tmux most of the day on both my work and personal computer). I have it set as close as I can to the Wombat color scheme that's built into emacs (and which can be easily added to Vim), because I personally have always felt that that was the most pleasant theme to stare at for long periods of time.

Another thing I do is set the prefix key to backtick. I have no idea why I started doing this, but at this point I'm too geriatric to change, and I still greatly prefer this over ctrl-b. The only issue I've had is when I need to do code blocks in markdown, but I've just gotten used to hitting backtick twice when I need to actually use a backtick.

hybirdss 4 days ago||
feels wrong to scp a dotfile to a server you only touch once
kristopolous 4 days ago||
Worth mentioning my tmux llm chat helper sidechat: https://github.com/day50-dev/sidechat

I use it every day.

faangguyindia 4 days ago||
i used to use tmux a lot when i used to develop on arch, since i moved to macos i never installed it.

tbh i even forgot what it used to buy me.

kristianpaul 3 days ago||
Try byobu
ggm 3 days ago||
Make tmux cut/paste work on mac terminal.app so I don't have to install iterm2 bloatware.
theshrike79 3 days ago|
I select with mouse and paste to wherever, works every time?

How can it not work? I think the only even loosely relevant setting on my .tmux.conf is: set -g mouse on

ggm 2 days ago||
It's the non mouse stuff i want. It's a known problem with a lot of "try this" approaches to fixing but no categorical answer. Nothing wrong with mice but keyboards have a role too.
capitainenemo 4 days ago||
I've had the ctrl-a setup ever since migrating from screen to tmux, just due to muscle memory. But it is more conveniently located than ctrl-b - it's also rather nice if I have multiple nested layers of tmux due to temporary ones on other hosts. Sure you can just keep repeating the bind, but, just remembering that the second layer uses ctrl-b is a bit more convenient I feel. Slows me down a little, but usually I'm not using the 2nd layer as much.

I don't use capslock for ctrl though. It's much too useful as the Compose key ;)

Lihh27 4 days ago|
the most tmux thing in the world is that "make tmux usable" is still a genre.
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