On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:40:20 +0100 "Martin \"eto\" Misuth" <et.c...@ethome.sk> wrote:
> I am immense fan of these user-level daemons (maybe they should have > some more exact name). > > First, there are two major caveats, that I noticed, being seen as > disadvantages, to this design: > > 1 - When such daemon crashes, your whole session is taken out. For > example all terminals die, all shell process trees go out (make), so > you can loose quite a lot of work. > > 2 - There is more moving parts in these setups, and when you are > unawarare of supervision, it might be hard to manage these daemons > efficiently. > > Software designed for this mode of operation obviously includes emacs > now. Teams and authors behind these, usually have pretty good > abilities and experience, as obviously designing this way requires > some kind of architecture. Thus most of these packages dont suck, and > are quite reliable. > > I personaly use/know these: > > - super famous tmux - terminal multiplexer > - you are probably aware of that one, handles lots of terminal > sessions > > - gnu screen - terminal multiplexer > - older and poorer cousin of tmux > > - mpd - the music player daemon - basically music player > - when spawned as it's own service outside of/before X it can > keep music playing even as you are tweaking you xorg.conf :) > - can route music over fifos through network and make many > amchines play same music Thanks Martin, Could you please show me your run scripts for tmux, screen and mpd? These are the three I could see myself using in this manner. SteveT Steve Litt November 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz
