Hello gezley! I finally was able to set aside some useful time for learning tmux - and I am hooked!

I am now pretty far along building Trinity to get the KDE 3.5 console, but as of now I am leaning toward leaving konsole behind and replacing it all with tmux!

I still have a ways to go learning my way around it, but I am hooked! Thanks - and thanks for the guides!

That's good. At least something like tmux, designed with the classic Unix dictum in mind to do one thing and one thing well, gives you a future-proof alternative to fall back on. You never know which way the big desktops will go.

1 members found this post helpful.

Thanks to all who replied!

I have now settled on Tmux to replace konsole not only for my new installations, but have now installed it on my existing Slackware 12.1 main work machine as well! Once I had decided to use Tmux going forward there was no point in having two work environments, so I made the switch.

Gezley hit the mark with his observation that Tmux would remove future dependence on the large desktop projects - something I usually try to do anyway.

If I stayed with konsole from 3.5.x then Trinity would definitely be the way forward. If I were using the KDE 3.5 DE that would make sense, but I do not use anything other than konsole, so that is a lot of work in the long run just to have the familiar tabbed terminals.

But the truth is, once I spent a few hours learning Tmux and setting up my environment around it - there was no going back! It is not simply an "alternate" solution - it is a superior solution for the way I work. How have I gotten by without it?!

I have now set up a scheme of templated session startup scripts within my projects directory structure, and a main startup script to call them that is invoked from a tty or my Fluxbox start script. I can control what sessions are started by chmod +x on current projects and chmod -x on complete projects. Works great!

Previous attempts to get similar use from screen were never successful due to the incomprehensible config script syntax. Tmux has a learning curve too, of course - but over the past two days I have explored the various config options and have it working and looking just the way I want! Well worth the effort!

I also built rxvt-unicode and configured an .Xdefaults to make it look just right, which I use as my Tmux environment...

So, I am going to mark this thread solved, and Tmux was the answer!

Special thanks to Woodsman for all his help and documentation. I intend to complete my Trinity build over the next few days just to have it running, but in the end it will not be the solution for my konsole problems.

And thanks again to gezley for directing me to Tmux - first I had heard of it!