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  1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

    Actually scratch that, I can just build that module for my currently running kernel and insert it without having to replace my kernel.

    Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:23:45 UTC from web
    1. J Thomas Knight J Thomas Knight

      @toksyuryel you've based everything on the foundation of learning. ;D Which is pretty awesome.

      Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:25:57 UTC from web
    2. Omni Omni

      @toksyuryel Random question: You use tmux, don't you? I've tried it for about 10 minutes and somewhat liked it, but I couldn't manage to change the "resolution" or run an X session inside of it. Is it even possible to run an X session inside of tmux or is the only possibility framebuffering? (Sorry if I'm asking you stupid questions but I spend a fair amount of time on DuckDuckGo and Google, to no avail)

      Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:26:07 UTC from web
      1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

        @omni tmux is a terminal multiplexer. It is an alternative to screen.

        Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:27:35 UTC from web
        1. Omni Omni

          @toksyuryel I'll take that as a "No, you can't run X sessions in there" which is fair, I guess, though this means I'll have to find something else (I'm not sure if I want to switch back to awesome or not :x)

          Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:29:15 UTC from web
          1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

            @omni You run tmux inside a terminal emulator inside of an X session. It and X have nothing to do with one-another.

            Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:30:52 UTC from web
          2. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

            @omni (alternatively you can also run tmux on the console. The main point here is that it's got nothing to do with X)

            Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:31:21 UTC from web
            1. Omni Omni

              @toksyuryel Yeah, that's what I was doing. And I guess it looked so much like a tiling window manager to me that I kinda thought that it would be possible to also run an X session in it in a tiled way for a moment. Oh well, at least tmux will be useful if I ever get stuck in a X-less environment.

              Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:33:20 UTC from web
              1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                @omni tmux is useful whether you use X or not :D it is not a window manager though. It's the same thing screen is.

                Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:34:34 UTC from web
                1. Omni Omni

                  @toksyuryel Being honest, I'm not really sure if I see the use of using tmux inside of a tiling window manager. It's tiling tiling-ness or so. Only sounds confusing to me. Then again, guess you could place it on a virtual desktop and tile a lot of SSH shells to different servers in it or so? Meh, maybe I'll find a use for it one day. Right now I don't really have any use for it though =/

                  Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:39:11 UTC from web
                  1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                    @omni tmux isn't about tiling anything, though it gives you that option. Have you ever used a terminal emulator with tabs? tmux gives you that same functionality, but it's more robust because you can detach and reattach it at will. This enables you to do crazy things like leave it running with your irc client inside of it and then ssh in from anywhere and attach to it. It also lets you use any terminal emulator you want regardless of tab support. And if X crashes or for whatever reason you need to restart X, no worries because your tmux session just gets detached and you can easily reattach it once you've relaunched X.

                    Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:47:54 UTC from web
                  2. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

                    @omni Have you never used screen before?

                    Thursday, 01-Nov-12 07:49:29 UTC from web