I'm one of the creators of cmux. I'm moving a lot of my own dev work to Mac Minis, so I'm starting to feel quite a lot of the pain you mentioned... will try to make this better!

please do and let me know ! quick story fast, I'm working a loooot remotely. I'm using https://github.com/sanchxt/yoop to synchronize my keyboard. Since I'm using moonlight it's blazing fast. But when I work in the train I'm back to ssh. My quick tip would be to: build your own tools, build them once, use them forever. and rmux is exactly made for that, it's prefect for TUIs over ssh and low connection that needs to stay alive even if you get disconnected

Can you develop freestyle in freestyle vms?

Yessir, we haven't mastered it yet but we've compiled the kernel with enough flags for stuff like nftables and KVM to make it possible.

Makes sense, added as issue: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/issues/205

iTerm2 has vertical tabs too

https://iterm2.com/3.0/documentation-preferences.html#:~:tex...

Could you file an issue with more details: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/issues

Would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback! Mitchell Hashimoto is awesome. Have a PR for fixing devtools here: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/pull/117

> hotkey overrides - I have some things explicitly unmapped / remapped in my ghostty config that conflict with some cmux keybindings and weren't respected

We need to be better about this; right now you can modify keyboard shorcuts with cmd+, in the GUI. Planning on making it a config file in the spirit of ghostty though, not sure if we want to reuse ghostty's config file though since it might become a maintenance burden for them...

> command palette (cmd-shift-p) for less-often-used actions + discoverability

yes

> cmd-z to "zoom in" to a pane is enormously useful imo

Thinking of the right way to design this. Like hypothetically we can expand it, but what happens if you make a vertical/horizontal split, or cmd+t to make a new tab? I guess we could just "merge" it back into the original space which would be pretty cool.

IMO (re zoom behavior): if you make a new tab, it should add a new tab as normal and stay zoomed in. the tab bar (of the currently zoomed in panel) would still be at the top while zoomed in, and workspaces still appear to the side

if you make a new split (or navigate splits), it would zoom you back out (contract the panel) and just split/navigate the way it normally would

We're working on a tmux/it2 compatibility layer to make this happen!

No built in way to override new-pane actions right now, but `cmux --help` can automate all parts of cmux.

So you can make your own script that can make new panels/workspaces and just invoke it from the terminal:

  git worktree add -b my-branch ../repo-my-branch
  ws=$(cmux new-workspace 2>&1 | awk '{print $2}')
  cmux send --workspace "$ws" "cd ../repo-my-branch && claude"
  cmux send-key --workspace "$ws" Enter

I think we should make this easier though, open to suggestions!

zmx solves persistence well, and I like their minimalism (not supporting windows, tabs, or splits). I think it's possible to make a CLI wrapper for zmx that adds notifications though, so you can have some niceties of cmux without switching to a new terminal. Lowkey we might explore this direction as well.

ive been working on glue for zmx+kitty (would do ghostty if it had proper ipc/scripting support). just changed the repo visibility on on gh cwelsys/kmux.