[LAU] A text-only environment for composing electronic music?

[Len Ovens]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:

> 3a.] A screen/tmux session where different components are loaded onto
> different screens. E.g. teqqer on screen 0, a mixer/instrument
> abstraction on screen 1, a jack patchbay on screen 2, a session
> handler on screen 3, etc.. There's an unclear part about the
> interaction of the session handling with the terminal multiplexer.

I haven't used tmux and so can't comment on it. I do use screen... in fact 
I am using it right now to run alpine to write this on my server, and it 
works just fine. I prefer using screen to using VTs for two reasons:

1) VTs must be used at the machine and don't seem to work well over serial 
connections. Screen works great remotely over ssh as I am now.

2) Screen (and I assume tmux would too) can be started with dbuslaunch. 
This means that all of the screens use the same instance of of dbus and so 
things that use dbus like jackdbus or some of the session managers will 
work.

The one thing I haven't managed to get to work on screen is scrolling up 
as I could in VTs or xterms (with shift pageup etc.) I end up running a 
command twice first to find out it runs text off the screen and a second 
time with a pager. Probably I am missing something.

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Len Ovens
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