On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:27:59PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > dunno what "works fine" means, but today, we use a program called > "tmux", which is part of base OpenBSD.
And tmux seems better written. On the Yeeloong, using screen will send you in a kernel failure with a Trap 4 error, while using tmux you can do anything you want, it's rock stable. screen has some shitty code inside that overflows my fb and miod even tried to fix it but it keeps crashing. moved to tmux, all problems gone. Using tmux as suggested is a very good idea. First, it's in the base system install, and second, there is some shitty code in screen that does really bad things to some consoles that just go nuts. If you like to use Control-A in tmux like in screen, create a .tmux.conf file in your home folder and put the following inside of it : set-option -g prefix C-a bind-key C-a last-window unbind C-b set -g base-index 1 setw -g aggressive-resize on bind-key -n F10 prev bind-key -n F11 next set-window-option -g mode-keys vi set-window-option -g utf8 on To copy/paste : Control-A to enter copy mode (upper right a thing between [] appears) and go to beginning of text to copy. Press space bar once. Move to end of stuff to copy, press Enter and it's done (sometimes you don't get a visual feedback because of the console, don't care). Use Control-a ] to paste as usual. This config file uses Control-a instead of Control-b, you can press Control-a twice to get between the two last consoles (as screen does). I use F10 and F11 keys to move to previous/ next console, you can remove those lines or change them if you want to use other keys Ditch screen. Use tmux. -- Gilbert Fernandes
