When I boot up my laptop and log in, Tmux is already running and a
terminal screen is attached to it. I have added a line to my
xinitrc that takes care of this.
Most of the stuff I do, is being done on the command line. I
prefer text mode applications. Almost all of my writing is in
Markdown. For email I use mutt, and just write plain text messages
in Vim.
After logging in, Tmux is started, the i3 window manager is
started and a window is opened with a st terminal screen attached
to my Tmux session.
So, without having to do anything other besides typing in my
username and password, I am looking at a terminal screen in a Tmux
session.
I like to use the feature in Tmux to copy text to a buffer and
paste text from this buffer. After having been using Screen for
many years, it took me quit some time to get ussed to the Tmux way
of copying (having to use Enter after selecting a region), but
currently it is in my muscle memory.
Before I got this setup, I used the window manager (ratpoison in
the past, i3 since some time) to start a new terminal session and
some time later regretting not to have first started Tmux and thus
must copy and paste by the use of the mouse.
I don't like using the mouse very much, defenitly not on the
not-so-ergonomic trackpad.
With my new setup, without thinking I start working in new Tmux
panes.
So, to do some copy and paste action, I use the Tmux method, with
just some keyboard keys and without any mouse actions.
This also results in most of the time using just one or two st
terminal screens. The downside is that I sometimes have eight or
nine Tmux windows, some of them devided in two panes ...
This is the line in my .xinitrc that takes care of this:
tmux has-session -t workpad || st -n workpad -e tmux new -s workpad &
