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mrus.bsky.social • 20 days ago

You Don’t Need A #Terminal #Multiplexer on Your Desktop

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#tmux #zellij #screen #cli #tui #desktop #twm

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jearil.bsky.social•19 days ago

Your writing style is excellent and I'm glad the Google app randomly showed you to me.

mrpickles.co.za•17 days ago

I would love to not need tmux on my desktop but I do. I like terminals dedicated to certain tasks. So I end up with many terminals open at the same time.
In tmux I have numbered windows that I can to switch to. Afaik there is no way to have shortcuts to jump between tabbed windows in i3/sway.

mrus.bsky.social•17 days ago

Check out https://github.com/ldelossa/sway-fzfify and how it is doing window selection. Your use case sounds very specific so I guess it'll be hard to find something that's ready-made — but it definitely is possible to implement shortcuts that use `swaymsg -t get_tree` and `swaymsg focus`. :-)

mrpickles.co.za•17 days ago

The workflow comes from ThePrimeagen, so I doubt it's very specific. https://youtu.be/bdumjiHabhQ?list=PLUFeA6y-5sFlswiwk7HgwTwfOxkOR7Q0f&t=240 I timestamped the Tmux section but a lot of my workflow follows that vid

mrpickles.co.za•17 days ago

I find it clumsy to have my screen split horizontally and then have the right side have 3 splits vertically in sway.
It's also nice to have the same tool available to you when working remotely. I use windows and splits when working on a remote machine and I can use the same keyboard shortcuts.

mrus.bsky.social•17 days ago

I agree, for working remotely Tmux is great. However, if you make it your local terminal environment *and* use it remotely you'll end up double-pressing the prefix or have a different prefix per location (local/remote), which is far from ideal.

mrpickles.co.za•17 days ago

Yeah, I use a separate terminal (Alacritty) window for remote connections.

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