Nice find. :) Cheers, Abraham
On Tuesday 20 November 2012 08:55 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > tmux is a great program. > > The developer was directly invited to become an OpenBSD > dev by Theo. > > He is no ordinary chap. The innovations done by him are > simply dumbfounding. > > The most interesting is his ability to display the currently executing > > It also shows a colorful status bar with other info. > > Here is a screenshot. > > http://spam-cheetah.com/downloads/tmux.png > > tmux is terminal multiplexor which means you can run multiple > shell programs in the foreground you can split a window into > vertical and horizontal panes. > > This is quite sexy. For a long time I did not know it. > > Here are shots: > > http://spam-cheetah.com/downloads/horz.png > http://spam-cheetah.com/downloads/vert.png > > The biggest use of this great idea originally envisaged by > the author of screen(1), a great way to do the same thing > albeit in a somewhat less capable way than tmux. > > The biggest use is that this is a default nohup capability > added to your playing music or download. > > If your machine powers down or your network cuts the > remote ssh session will continue to do your job if you run your commands > using tmux. > > Another fun thing is that you can connect to it from anywhere and continue > the session. > > tmux also helps you to do remote debugging and support > conferencing in which you collaborate with others or even > demo your code. > > In other words this is a text mode teamviewer. > > you can script this and do various other things. > > But the clock on the bottom in the default green status > bar is good enough for me. > > -Girish > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
