While it's better than the default terminal, iTerm2's tmux integration has always felt weak contrasted to the advantages of tmux.
I've used tmux for the past four years as my main environment, and was totally psyched to hear they were integrating it into iTerm2. But when I began digging into it, little from my workflows translated to the "integration" provided by iTerm2.
While it's a great feature of iTerm2, I find myself just using regular old tmux instead.
What features of the tmux integration do you utilize in iTerm2?
That's one frustration I have with Tmux. I want mouse scrollback, but don't want the other mouse controls. If I remember correctly I would accidentally go into copy-mode when I click-dragged my mouse by accident.
That's the largest gripe I've had. Eventually, I got used to not relying on GUI scrollback - that actually sped things up for me. In a pinch I just `hotkey, [` to activate scroll, then just use my mouse or page-up & page-down.
Even if you don't use tmux, get used to piping anything you'd want to read through `less`. It'll speed your workflow up.
I do use less sometimes, but sometimes I want to double check a command I typed a shirt while ago, or a command ends up outputting slightly more than I expected.
What I really want us an intelligent terminal, which attaches programming output to the program which produced it, let's me fold up long outputs, easily escape a long running program and store it output in a buffer for later checking, etc. But that seems annoyingly impossible.
While I love, love, simple and accessible learning material such as this - I really wish they'd encourage use of using a password alongside ssh keys. Seemingly the only draw to ssh keys for the layman is understandably disuse of passwords, but at that point (and perhaps accompanied by ill-set file permissions) you basically have your password to a remote machine written in a text file.
If anyone is learning something new in this article, please listen to me when I say when running `ssh-keygen` - put in a password. A simple one, I don't care. I promise you it's worth it.
Granted, this is the extreme, but in my mind this is simply the manifestation of the "do one thing well" mantra of *nix. The basic chains of tools allowing extensibility and chaining from one to another because they're so well-rounded in their own right.
This has always been a thing (reduction to absurdity); these days you just see it more often as javascript libraries for anything you could possibly want.
It's sad that it's been 25+ years in the making to finally get something sort of okay, and even then it's ridiculously expensive by contrast of closed source. Why can't we have something thinkpad-like for the cost? Don't they know they'd make metric craptons of money on something like that?
> Don't they know they'd make metric craptons of money on something like that?
They would? Thinkpad margins aren't that great to begin with (which is why IBM sold the business off to Lenovo). So now take out every high-volume, low cost component in there and replace it with something less popular. Because you no longer have those economies of scale you don't have the best fabs so the thermal profile of everything in there sucks, so you have to find some way to put the thing in a lap without causing permanent damage. And then you're marketing the thing to the users of the third-most-popular desktop OS, where the breakdown of market share is something like 90/8/2. But then not to users of the most popular desktop Linux distro, or even the top 10 most popular Linux distros, to the people who use stuff like Gnusense.
I think you should be able to just grab an equivlent x200 off of ebay (possibly with a different wlan card added) - and be safe (as in safe that you can run libreboot, not any guarantees about firmware in all the dark corners, like ethernet card).
I've been considering trying libreboot on my T420s - but as I use it almost every day, it's a bit high risk in case I brick it.
In the original blog post for the project, they explicitly anticipated this complaint and stated that this simply wasn't their goal. Novena is not intended to be a mass market Thinkpad clone, it is a laptop made by OSHW hackers for OSHW hackers. Hence why it includes an FPGA and plenty of GPIO pins.
Just looking to be put on the list so I can try it out once it's released to a larger audience.