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

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

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On 26.01.2014 17:21, Len Ovens wrote:

> 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:

I used to use screen before, too. But tmux is the cool new thing ;D
Nah, it's pretty much the same as screen with some additional goodies.


> 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.

Cool.

> 
> 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.

In tmux it's

ctrl-a [

Then you can use the cursor keys or pgup/pgdown to scroll back up.
Press esc to return to the prompt.

I forgot the key combo in screen. It's hidden as "copying" or
something in the screen/tmux-help..

Flo
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