screen and tmux should be listed under the same category

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Mon May 18 04:31:23 UTC 2009


On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM, matt donovan <kitchetech at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, matt donovan <kitchetech at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:38 PM, matt donovan <kitchetech at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Philip M. Gollucci
>>> > <pgollucci at p6m7g8.com>wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Josh Rickmar wrote:
>>> >> > GNU screen is listed under sysutils, while tmux is listed under
>>> >> > misc.
>>> >> > Shouldn't the two at least be in the same category, since they both
>>> >> > do
>>> >> > the exact same thing? (tmux is even designed to be a BSD-licensed
>>> >> > replacement for screen.)
>>> >> >
>>> >> Does anyone have any thoughts on tmux vs screen ?  the NO_PACKAGE in
>>> >> screen has been annoying me for years now if I can find a good
>>> >> replacement I'm so there.
>>> >>
>>> > tmux does not work inside the shell due to sc. But in  X it works
>>> > wonders.
>>>
>>> tmux works just fine at a console without X running.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> hmm odd since last time I asked about it it did not since I m the one that
>> brought it up, since I had an error and was told that the sc does not
>> support that feature what freebsd are you running since I tired it in 7.x.
>
> forgot something unless of coruse your using a term change trick that I
> suggested to the author of tmux.

FreeBSD 7.1 and 7.2, using tmux 0.8.  Haven't tested on any of my 6.x
boxes yet.  These are firewalls, with no X libs of any kind installed.
 Using the standard syscons driver.  PIXEL_MODE is set in the kernel,
but not using any high-res modes, still the standard 80x25.

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Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com


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