My build of dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager

dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm to the console. As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple console based programs.

Usage

# Multiplexing only
dvtm

# Multiplexing with session management, with my build of abduco
# https://codeberg.org/unixchad/abduco
# https://github.com/gnuunixchad/abduco
abduco -c my-session

Environment variables

export DVTM_EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"    # copy mode editor
export DVTM_PAGER="/usr/bin/less -R" # scrollback history pager

Statusbar

dvtm can read a named pipe and display it in the statusbar.

# run dvtm with status script
dvtm-status

Current modules in my dvtm-status:

• Date
• Battery level with charging status
• Unread new emails count from isync/neomutt
• Login users count to be aware of SSH or TTY connections

Patches applied

• pertag
• vicursor

Session management

My build of abduco(codeberg or github)

Dependencies

• ncurses

Known Issues

1. neovim has every slow start/exit speed even with --clean

I have nvim aliased as vim, but when inside dvtm vim is preffered for better performance:

if [ ! $UID -eq 0 ]; then
    command -v nvim >/dev/null \
        && [ -z "$DVTM" ] \
        && alias vim="nvim"
           vimdiff="nvim -d"
fi

2. dvtm doesn't support 24-bit color

I have created an autocmd to disable vim's 24-bit color inside dvtm:

augroup dvtm
    autocmd!
    autocmd BufEnter * if !empty(getenv('DVTM')) | setlocal notermguicolors | endif
augroup END

License

dvtm reuses some code of dwm and is released under the same MIT/X11 license. The terminal emulation part is licensed under the ISC license.