dwm.tmux

I landed on near the same thing. I also went too far the other way at various points: ed as editor, weirder shells (posix sh, rc, es, rush (ruby shell), pdksh), suckless everything (even on MacOS, where possible). I found my healthy balance between using more modern tools and learning the defaults to avoid too much configuration. I still have 281 lines in dotfiles (according to `git ls-files | xargs cat | wc -l`), along with my dwm.tmux[0] as window manager, but I feel like I can generally operate in most environments as long as base tools are present. If others haven't tried it, I recommend giving it a go. Try being bravely default. [0] https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux

Through this project I realized that there's just some limitations to a plain tmux config. I eventually had to switch over to calling out to shell in order to get around those issues. Commit with the switch to shell here: https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux/commit/c8752b978390... I think there's a lot of potential to scripting terminal multiplexers in various ways and I would love to see more work exploring what's possible!

Hey, HN! With all recent agentic workflows being primarily terminal- and tmux-based, I wanted to share a little project I created about decade ago. I've continued to use this as my primary terminal "window manager" and wanted to share in case others might find it useful. I would love to hear about other's terminal-based workflows and any other tools you may use with similar functionality.

I created some dwm-inspired tmux pane management that works well for me: https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux

I came to the same conclusion. I wound up making a small tmux lib for dwm-style pane management: https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux