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It's time to talk about my writerdeck - veronicaexplains (veronicaexplains.net)
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[–] 22 points 5 months ago (9 children)

My laptop is terminal-only as well.

The only difference is that I use hyprland and waybar because it looks a bit better and using the dynamic tiling is sometimes easier than operating tmux panes.

To add to her list of useful apps:

mpd - To play music/audio. There are plug-ins for tmux and waybar to show the song status

ncmpcpp - TUI mpd client

lynx - Sometimes you need a web browser

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Any reason it's not using zellij but still tmux? I thought this use case was basically what zellij was made for.

    To be clear, I'm seriously asking, I don't really use the terminal to host fully fledged applications/screens

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I haven't tried zellij yet, but I'll give it a shot (thanks).

    If I had to guess, it's that there are a ton of plug-ins for tmux and she's more comfortable with tmux.

    Really, any terminal multiplexer will work fine. You just need to be able to do multiple things at once, Linux offers a plethora of choices for this.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Agreed, i should also be trying zellij, but my tmux is so well configured (for my) and dracula-tmux has everything i’d want, so it’d be hard to leave that behind for a not otherwise specified benefit. speed i guess?

    considering that she’s using debian, i feel like she’s also living the peaceful life of not always chasing the latest shiny new tool, if the one she’s got is working well.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Hypr looks like overkill. I use Sway for a similar thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It is. The laptop was originally my testbed for trying hyprland so it had essentially nothing else installed, I just ended up using it as a portable terminal due to some unexpected traveling and I enjoyed the concept so I've kept it around.

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