An opinion on the trend of content creators promoting Tmux and Zellij for desktop environments – and why these setups may miss the point.
  • runeko
    52·
    2 months ago

    I don’t neeeeeed a homelab with 24 cores and 96 Gb ram sitting next to my desk either, but here we are.

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        7·
        2 months ago

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    • sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org
      23·
      2 months ago

      It’s how non-Latin Unicode domain names are encoded, in this case one made out of Japanese characters. I suppose it depends on the browser whether or not it shows them.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    You do need it.

    If your anything like me you end up with 200 terminal windows open on your desktop.

    With a Terminal multiplexer you can attach to named sessions from any terminal open and get the correct context for long running things you care about

    • FizzyOrange
      81·
      2 months ago

      200?! I can pretty confidently say approximately nobody is anything like you 😄

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago
        for nop in $(seq 1 200); do
    open -a Terminal --new &
    sleep 0.1
done

        One of us, one of us

  • tatterdemalion
    162·
    2 months ago

    Annoyingly long post totally misses the point of using tmux and chalks it up to “elitism”. So who’s really acting like an elitist contrarian??

  • Overspark@feddit.nl
    152·
    2 months ago

    Pretty much agree with most of his post. Terminal multiplexers are useless on your desktop, but great on servers you ssh to.

    Wild ideas aside, zellij is really nice as just a terminal multiplexer though 😅

    • tatterdemalion
      10·
      2 months ago

      Do you not SSH onto your desktop? I do it all the time. I often want to switch from coding at my desk to coding on a laptop, and tmux + SSH makes that transition completely seamless.

      • Overspark@feddit.nl
        2·
        2 months ago

        Nah, my desktop is for gaming 😄 Also I do most of my coding on a server I ssh to anyway.

        • mrkite
          2·
          2 months ago

          So you admit it’s not useless on the desktop of you actually code locally.

          • Overspark@feddit.nl
            1·
            2 months ago

            If you switch between doing it locally and accessing your machine remotely it makes sense. But if you stay entirely locally then your DE or compositor is probably way more powerful and easier to use than a multiplexer. Unless you stay entirely in text mode and don’t even have a GUI, then it starts to make sense again I guess.

  • FireplaceSteward@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I 100% get his point, I only use it on my pc because I also use it on my server which I ssh into and I’ve got a lot of muscle memory there. I also sometimes ssh into my pc from other pcs (and even the server too confusingly) so I like to have tmux there for that too. Though I don’t mess with it, I don’t play with themes or configs really, and I’m certainly not interested in controlling Spotify from my tmux setup.