I'm glad that it has tmux compatibility. Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with tmux? I hate its scrolling and buffer behavior, its almost impossible to get right. Been waiting for a good replacement for tmux to come along for a while now that isn't just i3. Right now I just use tabs in the terminal app most of the time because I dont want to mess with mouse mode, etc.
> Been waiting for a good replacement for tmux to come along for a while now that isn't just i3
> Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with tmux?
> I hate its scrolling and buffer behavior, its almost impossible to get right.
I wasn't planning on sharing my project on HN until I've written up more documentation, but I'm actually working on exactly this problem.
So far I've got i3-like controls, resizing & scrolling terminal splits with the mouse, and better color support than tmux.
My current roadblock has been lack of motivation, but if *anyone& on HN finds this interesting (or even just files a bug report), I'd be motivated to reignite my work on the project.
Funny, me too! I was adding some features yesterday, a few more today, but I took a few minutes to do screenshots and join the discussion.
If you are focused on better controls, our work may be complementary. Would you like to join forces on a high quality fork? A few things concern me with tmux currently.
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1613 is a better reflection of my views on SIXEL, although I am coming round to the idea rather. It is not easy to do properly however, I am interested to see how your code works.
I don't have zsh setup on the OS I'm running currently, but a simple example is that the light-grey autocomplete text from zsh/oh-my-zsh shows up on i3-tmux but not tmux (at least at the time of writing).
I honestly don't remember the exact details, and maybe it's now fixed.
> Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with tmux?
Absolutely. Just today I logged in on some server and started a tmux session to learn that copypasting with mouse didn't work. After googling how to solve this I noticed that scrollback with mousehweel also didn't work. Then I remembered that I did solve that some time ago but never was satisfied with it because the scroll speed/differential was so low.
It is easy to change the scroll speed in tmux, although the default is 5 lines at a time which seems like it should be fast enough...
Mouse and scrollback and clipboard are some of the more complicated areas of terminal emulators and ones where applications like tmux have the least power so they will always have the potential to be a bit fiddly.
I do. I have found yesterday and today several strange issues, and a pattern of breaking more things with new features - like deciding to silently drop lines.
