Using tmux
One of the more useful tools for use with gentoo is tmux. With gentoo, running updates can take a long time. Being able to leave a console session running without the need to leave putty or a ssh client open can be handy
- The ability to detach a session and leave something running, then come back to it / reattach later on
- Vertical scroll of the window with the mouse wheel
- Split the window vertically or horizontally or both to make you feel like a real hacker
- Run lots of little process monitoring stuff in the corner, to make you feel elite
There's more details in the official gentoo wiki.
this is just a quick start guide to get up and running as quick as possible.
First to install tmux
emerge tmux
Next to setup a default configuration
cp /usr/share/doc/tmux-3.1b/example_tmux.conf /etc/tmux.conf
The default config uses Ctrl-A instead of Ctrl-B for tmux which is actually more convenient
To setup a new session
tmux
To detach from the session (but leave it running in the background)
- Press Ctrl-A
- Press 'd'
To attach to the last session
tmux a
To list all the sessions active
tmux ls
To kill a panel
- Press Ctrl-A
- Press 'x'
In order to use copy paste if you are using putty and the default configuration for tmux.
Hold down the shift key and left click to copy / right click to paste.
This is the same as what you would normally do for putty with just the addition of the shift key
Splitting the window is pretty easy, tmux provide a right click menu.
This can be used to split the window vertically or horizontally.
You can also drag the edges of the panel to resize.
htop should already be installed, it can be used to display general process / cpu info
gotop is another similar application to htop
layman -a guru
# The double star is due to a missing keyword for arm64
echo "sys-process/gotop **" > /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/gotop
emerge gotop
