I’ve recently stopped using tmux in favour of relying fully kitty’s built-in windows and tabs, and I’m a fan.
The real killer app for me was the “pass_keys” plugin that allows you to navigate vim and kitty splits all with the same keys. I think there are plugins that allow you to do the same between vim<>tmux<>kitty as well, so it’s not like you would need to drop tmux to take advantage of it.
Anyway, so that’s been a big shift in my daily workflow. I’ve been using tmux for well over a decade, and GNU screen before that (I was never able to train myself away from the C-a prefix.
The one thing I miss a lot is being able to quickly detach and re-attach to existing sessions. Especially when doing some work over an ssh connection. But then I can always just shove the terminal into scratch space, or another i3 workspace.
This isn’t me trying to sell anyone on ditching tmux. I love tmux, and if it works for your flow then it’s perfect for you. More just curious what kinds of setup other people have.
Is there some hot new thing that I’ve missed that blows both kitty and tmux and i3 out of the water? Idk, but I’m always on the lookout. :p
There’s a ton, but I still don’t find them very useful. The real thing I find dumb is the hardware acceleration for 95% of use-cases. Unless you’re just sitting and watching scrolling output, I don’t see the need to sacrifice efficiency for faster rendering, and even then, I can’t say I’ve had many issues with standard terms either.
Ghostty is the one getting the most hype recently, and it’s alright. It feels more put together than Kitty or Alacritty. Rio is mostly a toy with a bunch of goofy visual effects. Honestly can’t say any of them have features that improve my workflow over just having a bunch of named windows all over the place though.