I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would definitely use tmux on my servers, but I’m wondering about why I’d use it for the desktop. Your use-case of needing commands/output beyond the need of a graphical interface is interesting (would like to know a couple of examples), I should probably consider that.

    I can do the splitting with a window manager though, wouldn’t need tmux for that. I agree with the program GUI part.

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      1 year ago

      Examples of local commands I might run in tmux could include anything long-running which is started from the command line. A virtual machine (qemu), perhaps, or a video encode (ffmpeg). Then if I need to log out or restart my GUI session for any reason—or something goes wrong with the session manager—it won’t take the long-running process with it. While the same could be done with nohup or systemd-run, using tmux allows me to interact with the process after it’s started.

      I also have systems which are accessed both locally and remotely, so sometimes (not often) I’ll start a program on a local terminal through tmux so I can later interact with it through SSH without resorting to x11vnc.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the comment. Long-running commands make a lot of sense.

        Do you happen to run your GUI session inside of a tmux session? If you log in and out, wouldn’t the tmux session inside of the user-session terminate?