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by jonathan_s 3821 days ago
(author). This is the first release of Pymux. It should be stable and usable for daily work. However, don't hesitate to create a GitHub issue in case you feel that it lacks some features/responsitivity or when you'd like to see something different. Expect to see more progress in the coming months. Jonathan
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rogerbinns 3821 days ago
Three things I care about are byobu, mouse support and tabs.

Being able to make byobu use this instead would make adoption really easy. Hopefully just documentation and changing one byobu setting for a different binary name somewhere.

Tmux has mouse support but it seems to require config settings (ie doesn't happen by default). I'd rather mouse stuff just works out of the box with no configuration and does the right thing.

I like tabs in the terminal (eg Gnome-Terminal on Linux). I believe there is a Mac term emulator that can map the different screens to tabs. Byobu does help a lot with this, but it would be nice if the terminal can do so too.

Thanks for allowing different viewers to see different screens at the same time. tmux's behaviour of making every viewer see the same one at the same time is highly annoying. (Yes I know there are ponderous workarounds, but seriously?)

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avn2109 3821 days ago
+1 for out-of-box mouse event support. This would be the killer feature for me.

Right now, configuring pass-through mouse events in Tmux on a Mac is a huge production. StackOverflow has conflicting advice for each permutation of OSX version + Tmux version, and a lot of stuff changed in the last couple versions of each, such that old advice is entirely useless.

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ihsw 3821 days ago
I'm not at all familiar with Python enough to know the answer to this question -- why are there no unit tests for Pymux?
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rlpb 3820 days ago
I'd love to see the ability to attach a GUI terminal with tighter integration. I use GNOME Terminal, for example, and when connecting to a multiplexer I'd like every screen to appear as a tab, with the ability to detach again later. I believe iterm2 does this, but it is OS X only.

This is the only thing I currently miss with screen/tmux/byobu.

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