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In my current setup I usebspwm as my window manager andalacrittyas my terminal emulator and I wanted a super simple terminal session manager to use with it.

After usingscreen andtmux,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 totab-rs, which is much more lean and heavilyinspiredterminalsession. 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 bashterminal session manager built on topofdtach andfzf (for interactive mode).

terminalsession doesn't requires any configuration and doesn't provide any window management capabilities. It allowsyou tolist,create,attach andkill$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 thedtach 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 itto display the name of the current session in your prompt.

• tsctl list - list all existing sessions
• tsctl attach <session_name> - attach to an existing session or create & attach to a new one session
• tsctl kill <session_name> - kills an existing session (sendsSIGTERM signal)
• tsctl - launch interactive mode

Once attached to a session, useC-a to detach from it.

In interactive mode:

• select an exising session from the list and pressenter to attach to it
• type the name for a new session and pressenter to create & attach to it
• select an existing session an pressC-k to kill it
• pressC-r to reload the session list
• pressC-h for help