tmux VS wezterm

The hard part is the hand-off. I tried three using a shared tmux session and a filesystem via handoff file, and with an ACP (Agent Communication Protocol):

tmux is still hard to beat when you need persistent terminal sessions, panes, and project workspaces.

This tutorial provides a practical introduction to TMUX and how you can use tmuxinator to easily set up terminal dashboards with logs and shell sessions for your docker compose projects.

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Combining tmux with Ghostty unlocks Agent Teams split-pane mode, plus:

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tmux is the terminal multiplexer — it lets you run persistent, multi-pane terminal sessions that survive disconnects. If you close your laptop and come back, your tmux sessions are still running.

I hed to look this up, so here's a correction: it was one large line logically split, not smaller lines. So you can't select, say, a long compact JSON line.

Still not fixed: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/3494

I was really excited for it, because I didn't know about it, but seems to scratch every terminal itch I've got.

Except it didn't run on my Windows VDI because "The OpenGL implementation is too old to work with glium". There's a config workaround here https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/1813 though. I don't know if this setting, or the implementation per se, makes rendering slow, but it's unusable for me. I can't wait a couple of seconds for every keystroke inside mc, rendering text is supposed to be lightning fast.

For 1 - there's actually a nice proposal from WezTerm to make this an all-purpose general protocol that I hope happens: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/discussions/4889

For 2 - I think this can be achieved with scroll vertical/horizontal scroll regions (which should also boost performance a bit). I hope to implement this in the future.

i found the titlebar: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/6296

it's ugly as hell. but that's partly gnomes fault for not supporting server side decorations. and, at least they are working on something nicer.

in the meantime, now i have two sets of titlebar buttons. one set in the titlebar, and a somewhat nicer looking set in the tabbar. but i found a work around: if i turn window_decorations off, then i get nothing, but i can turn it back on without restarting and then i only get the integrated buttons in the tabbar without the ugly titlebar. now i only need to find a way to script this...

for now i'll just run it without a titlebar, using win/cmd+uparrow to maximize the terminal. i rarely need to resize it anyways.

-- https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/3299#issuecomment-2145712082 wezterm.on("gui-startup", function(cmd) local active = wezterm.gui.screens().active local tab, pane, window = wezterm.mux.spawn_window(cmd or {}) window:gui_window():set_position(active.x, active.y) window:gui_window():set_inner_size(active.width, active.height) end)

I tried WezTerm recently but I unfortunately could not type backslashes on an ISO keyboard. There were other minor annoyances such as new tabs always opening on the last directory I was at and not my home directory (this was something that could be configured, but I never managed to do it). Ultimately, it was the problem with the backslashes that drove me back to iTerm.

https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/4051