I just spend a few minutes watching a video explaining the benefits of using TMUX, the terminal multiplexer. It was a video from NetworkChuck, you need to learn tmux RIGHT NOW!!!
I was able to set tmux as my default shell on both my desktop and server, then have tmux use fish as its default shell.
My desktop is running Aurora-DX and the server is running ucore-hci:stable-zfs. I setup Homebrew on uCore by running the install script, Aurora has it installed out of the box.
To get fish install via brew:
brew install fish
Thankfully tmux is installed on both systems out of the box as well. To get it to play nicely with my desktop’s clipboard on Wayland, I installed the Tmux Plugin Manager.
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
I created the ~/.tmux.conf files on my desktop and server.
Desktop:
set-option -g default-shell "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/fish"
set -s set-clipboard on
set -s copy-command 'wl-copy -- '
set -g mouse on
# Send bind-key to remote session by `C-b b`
bind-key b send-prefix
setw -g mode-keys vi
# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-yank'
# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'
Server:
set-option -g default-shell "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/fish"
set -g mouse on
setw -g mode-keys vi
Lastly I set tmux as my default shell by executing it with .bashrc
🛑 Don’t do this right now. It caused my KDE Plasma to login to a black screen. I will look into a better way and update when I can.
Add the following line to the end of ~/.bashrc:
if [[ -z "$TMUX" ]]; then
if tmux has-session 2>/dev/null; then
exec tmux attach
else
exec tmux
fi
fi
With all that done, I can now enjoy creating new panes, windows and not worry about commands being terminated do to disconnections. Using the bind-key b send-prefix, I am able to press Ctrl+b then b then the command I want to send to my server.
I am really starting to fully enjoy my computers lately. Thank you to all whom are working on the Universal Blue project, Linux kernel and all the other great F/LOSS out there. I really appreciate the opportunity to use it. God Bless you.