Re: [dwm] [ANNOUNCE] dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager - aka dwm for the console

On Dec 8, 2007 3:25 PM, Marc Andre Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:14:54PM +0100, Tuncer Ayaz wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 2007 1:29 PM, Marc Andre Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > For some time i have been thinking about applying the concept of
> > > tiling window management to the console. As a result i have
> > > written dvtm, you can check it out here:
> > >
> > > http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
> > >
> > > dvtm is highly inspired by dwm and reuses some of it's code, so
> > > dwm users will probably be familiar with it. dvtm depends on
> > > libncurses and a patched version of librote[1] which handles the
> > > terminal emulation stuff. Install instruction can be found on the
> > > website mentioned above.
> > >
> > > dvtm comes with 3 standard layouts (tile,bstack,grid). In contrast
> > > to dwm it currently doesn't have a status bar and therefore doesn't
> > > read from stdin, it also has no support for tagging this may or may
> > > not change in the future.
> > >
> > > Note that dvtm is in early development so there are still bugs in
> > > both dvtm and the underlying terminal emulation library.
> > > Feel free to fix them and send me a patch.
> > >
> > > Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
> >
> > I didn't try it out yet but it looks useful. Thanks.
> >
> > As it is probably not meant to be used within
> > screen I'd like to ask whether it would work
> > with dtach. Does it?
> >
>
> It seems to work with
>
> dtach -c /tmp/test -r winch dvtm
>
> one thing which i noticed is that the initial window size of dvtm is
> 80x25 when you then resize the dtach window a sigwinch is send and dvtm
> uses the whole area. Will look into this.
>
> I think it should work with screen too, but the current default config.h
> uses CTRL-A as modifier which conflicts with screen (i actually used
> CTRL-A because i thought screen is using it so it won't conflict with
> to many other apps).

I never use Ctrl-A with screen as I use both Vim and Emacs and also
the default shell emacs-style keybindings (Alt-D, Ctr-W, Ctrl-A, Ctr-E, ...).
There must be a reason for it being Ctrl-A but I don't know what it is :)

> With screen you get workspaces for free (different screen windows each running
> dvtm) but this is probably not the best solution.
Received on Sat Dec 08 2007 - 18:32:08 UTC