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ryannevius | 2 years ago

I may be alone on this, but kitty¹ with sessions has nearly eliminated my use of tmux.

[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

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DiabloD3|2 years ago

Any terminal that has rich pane manipulation semantics can serve to take the place of tmux, this includes kitty.

The one thing kitty can't do, however, is have a remote session that keeps your workspace intact. I, and many other devs, purposely disconnect our development from any given machine we're on.

The majority of reboots or other disruptive behavior is because of desktop machines (for those of us that don't use Linux as our primary and only desktop OS); running the tmux session off another machine (even if its just a headless machine under our desk) minimizes disruption due to GPU/etc bullshit.

alganet|2 years ago

Terminals are often single platform (I don't know a single one that is cross platform).

If you use multiple OSs, tmux offers a consistency that paned terminals cannot offer.

dizhn|2 years ago

I think wezterm should be able to do persistent sessions when its mux server is installed on the remote side.

I will find out more info and come back.

em-bee|2 years ago

even locally, when the GUI hangs and i need to restart it (Xwayland still has issues), having most of my work in local tmux sessions saves a lot of time after logging back in.

benrutter|2 years ago

I had this for a while, I suspect a lot if users are like me (and I assume you) in that the functionality they need from tmux is more or less just tabs and splits (tmux does more than this, but I don't tend to use those features) which kitty replaces pretty nicely.

Since I work across actual Linux and WSL I really appreciate having something that's terminal agnostic like tmux since it means I don't have to have a separate set up when kitty isn't available.

OJFord|2 years ago

Discovering tiling window managers (it was i3, I now use sway) stopped me using it - I only really did for tiling I suppose, then discovered I could have that for other apps too.