abduco
abduco provides session management i.e. it allows programs to be run independently from their controlling terminal. That is programs can be detached - run in the background - and then later reattached. Together with dvtm it provides a simpler and cleaner alternative to tmux or...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
The latest version (0.6) was released in March 2016.
Features
- Multiple Instances
- Session Management
Tags
- session-resume
- detach
- Console
- daemonizable
- control-function
- terminal-session-management
- Terminal Multiplexer
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Open Source (ISC) and Free product.Written in
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- English
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- 31 Open Issues
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What is abduco?
abduco provides session management i.e. it allows programs to be run independently from their controlling terminal. That is programs can be detached - run in the background - and then later reattached. Together with dvtm it provides a simpler and cleaner alternative to tmux or screen.
abduco is in many ways very similar to dtach but is a completely independent implementation which is actively maintained, contains no legacy code, provides a few additional features, has a cleaner, more robust implementation and is distributed under the ISC license.
Comments and Reviews
The keyboard shortcuts actually make sense (coughscreencoughtmux)--conventional unix-y keys are even used when possible (e.g. / for text searching). The whole thing (even when used in conjunction with dvtm) is pleasantly minimalistic--you can pretty much master it in a few days.
The tag system in particular is nice--you have five 'views' (pane groups), and one window can be tagged to appear in multiple views. It's a bit hard to wrap your head around at first, but it's pretty sweet.
One minor thing: the default command prefix is ctrl-g, which is weird. I think the idea is to use your right hand to hold ctrl and the left to tap g, but that doesn't work in virtualbox--you may want to make a script command to change that, something like:
abduco -c $1 dvtm-status -m ^a
(this also shows off how an arbitrary command can be run on startup).
Edit: this review is kind of also for dvtm, since they work together so well.