Thread: Replacing GUI Apps on PC with Console-Based Apps!
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Tigerroast is offline Tigerroast
2014-12-02 , 01:40
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#11
Originally Posted by wicket View Post
I hadn't heard of Ratpoison before. There's also Xpra but I still haven't gotten around to trying it out. Unlike Ratpoison it's not a window manager so it should be usable with whatever window manager/desktop environment you like.
Ratpoison is so customizable. However, I don't like the defaults so much. It supports groups by default, but there's no bindings for them. Also, the default command binding of C-t isn't very nice.

All that said, people have made some very pretty+functional Ratpoison configs.

Just skimmed over the Xpra entry on ArchWiki. I'm gonna have to try that soon.


Who needs tabs when you've got Screen/tmux? :P
I like tabs just because they're familiar, but that's true!

Check out the tmux FAQ for the main differences. Some of my favourite features include vertical pane splitting, automatic renaming of windows/titles, better UTF-8 support, the status bar being on by default. I also like that the default key binding doesn't break the shell usage of Ctrl-A to move the cursor to the beginning of the line, but bare in mind that a lot people hate it and end up remapping the keys to a layout similar to Screen (the prefix key in tmux is Ctrl-B). I prefer the key mapping for handling nested sessions too (press Ctrl-B twice). The memory usage is much better in tmux too!
Screen, at least on the bigger distros, comes with the vertical split patch by default. But, I digress. From what I've read so far from following that link, tmux is interesting me.