Abduco + DVTM a Lightweight Alternative to Tmux and Screen

July 5, 2014 1-minute read

One of the most frequently requested features of dvtm, my tiling window manager for the console, has always been session support as provided by GNU screen and tmux. However these are two distinct features: window and session management shouldn’t be intermingled, that is why I have recently been developing abduco a tool for session {at,de}tach support. In combination with dvtm it strives to be a more lightweight alternative to tmux and screen.

Quickstart

Perform the following steps to get it up and running, install dvtm

wget http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/dvtm-0.12.tar.gz
tar xzf dvtm-0.12.tar.gz
make && sudo make install

Install abduco

wget http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/abduco-0.1.tar.gz
tar xzf abduco-0.1.tar.gz
make && sudo make install

Launch a new session

abduco -c session-name

create a few windows with Ctrl+g c then detach from your session by means of Ctrl+ list all available sessions by executing abduco without any arguments. Reattach to the session with

abduco -a session-name

Hope these tools are useful for some of you, at least for me they proved to be a more lightweight alternative to tmux and screen.