Shell and tmux

[DaPlumber]

As a CLI kind of guy still settling in to a FreeNAS box, I really miss "screen" instead of tmux. It's an EMACS vs vi thing. ;)

That said is there any way of having the GUI "Shell" link start up "tmux attach" automatically? I.e. I'd like the shell window I open to be persistent across GUI sessions. If not, I guess off to file a Feature Request I go.

 

[fracai]

You could write a startup command that checks if you're in a tmux session (env variable? At least shell level would do it) and run tmux if you're not.

 

[DaPlumber]

You could write a startup command that checks if you're in a tmux session (env variable? At least shell level would do it) and run tmux if you're not.

Yes, that had occurred to me. However since I can't log into the GUI as anything other than root I'm a little loath to go messing with profiles etc. I'd also thought about making tmux attach the "login shell", but again: not for root and that rules out the GUI shell.

 

[fracai]

Ah, good point. I almost always just connect with ssh, not the web GUI. If you decide you want tmux to autostart, check here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/tmux#Start_tmux_on_every_shell_login

 

[DaPlumber]

Thanks for the reference, that should work ok for ssh to my non-root login