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by enriquto 2309 days ago
> I think tmux is overrated, at least when running locally. Tiling WM gets you the same efficient screen layout and keybind driven navigation

Funnily, I have made the opposite path, moving from a tiling WM to tmux into a simple xterm. Tiling wm are overrated, since tmux gives you the same functionality, and you can detach your session easily.

What I'm sorely missing is a way to "freeze" all my tmux processes so that they can be recovered in the case of a system reboot.
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cyberbanjo 2309 days ago
Seems like a great idea. Lack of persistence bugs me about my i3 / tmux / emacs setup.

Google brings [1] but I haven't tried it yet.

1: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

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enriquto 2309 days ago
yes, but this is a mock-up of a real freeze. What I want is independent of tmux: a way to freeze a process and all its children and save it into a file. The file is then opened when rebooting, or even on a different computer. There was this:

    https://github.com/maaziz/cryopid
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madmax96 2309 days ago
Have you looked at CRIU?
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enriquto 2309 days ago
Yes, but does it really work? The documentation is written in the future tense.
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madmax96 2309 days ago
It works for most things. You can always try it for your usecase and see how it goes.
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zokier 2308 days ago
> since tmux gives you the same functionality

Unless you're browsing HN on Lynx I suspect you'll have at least a graphical browser running, which means you still need some way to manage graphical windows, because that is simply something that tmux does not do.

Also proper WM is unsurprisingly more capable/flexible for window management because it's not limited by a fixed character cell grid and other idiosyncrasies of terminals

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enriquto 2308 days ago
> Unless you're browsing HN on Lynx

I actually use elinks to read HN and many sites, but I also use regularly a web browser.

However, I try to keep web-browsing usage as sparse as possible. I launch firefox from the terminal, browse tho wherever I need, and then close the browser window. I abhor to have a browser "always open".

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petepete 2309 days ago
Rather than freeze them I have a tmuxinator[0] config per project that opens all of the panes and tools I tend to use. Usually something like: editor, extra (often my rails console or database prompt), git, tests, server, logs.

I know the numbers off by heart so can switch without looking.

[0] https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator

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timw4mail 2309 days ago
Tmux Resurrect works pretty well:

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

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