In my current setup I use bspwm as my window manager and alacritty as my terminal emulator and I wanted a super simple terminal session manager to use with it.
After using screen and tmux, I realized that I didn't need all the bell and whistles provided by such tools. In fact, the highly rich feature set of said tools would get in my way many times.
I decided to migrate to tab-rs, which is much more lean and heavily
inspired terminalsession. Although much more simpler than other tools, tab-rs has a few things that I dislike,
such as configurable sessions (not required, but once again a feature I don't need), use of websocket to connect to the server,
and a few annoying bugs.
terminalsession is a bash terminal session manager built on top
of dtach and fzf (for interactive mode).
terminalsession doesn't requires any configuration and doesn't provide any window management capabilities. It allows
you to list, create, attach and kill $SHELL sessions.
It also provides a interactive mode, that can be used as the initial program for your terminal emulator.
That's is the full feature set!
terminalsession stores the dtach sock files are stored in the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR dir (fallback to /tmp).
All sessions have an environment variable $TERMINALSESSION set with the name of the session - you can use it
to display the name of the current session in your prompt.
tsctl list- list all existing sessionstsctl attach <session_name>- attach to an existing session or create & attach to a new one sessiontsctl kill <session_name>- kills an existing session (sends SIGTERM signal)tsctl- launch interactive mode
Once attached to a session, use C-a to detach from it.
In interactive mode:
- select an exising session from the list and press enter to attach to it
- type the name for a new session and press enter to create & attach to it
- select an existing session an press C-k to kill it
- press C-r to reload the session list
- press C-h for help