I know what you're thinking:

But hear me out. I always ran multiple tabs, multiple window setup and it worked. But last week, I had a coworker show me this "program" he used to recreate part of our product's GUI. Basically a shell script that sets up tmux, splits up the window, and runs a variety of scripts in each. It was glorious. I spent all Friday creating my own and extended it accept some parameters and bam, amazingly useful tool! Especially in instances where forwarding the X server back is unwieldy.
If you haven't given tmux a go and you're not solidly in the "need a real GUI" camp, try it right now!
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Mapping the crtl key from C-b to C-a is what really made it for me. My simple .tmux.conf:

But hear me out. I always ran multiple tabs, multiple window setup and it worked. But last week, I had a coworker show me this "program" he used to recreate part of our product's GUI. Basically a shell script that sets up tmux, splits up the window, and runs a variety of scripts in each. It was glorious. I spent all Friday creating my own and extended it accept some parameters and bam, amazingly useful tool! Especially in instances where forwarding the X server back is unwieldy.
If you haven't given tmux a go and you're not solidly in the "need a real GUI" camp, try it right now!
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Mapping the crtl key from C-b to C-a is what really made it for me. My simple .tmux.conf:
# remap prefix to Control + a set -g prefix C-a unbind C-b bind C-a send-prefix # force a reload of the config file unbind r bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf #add mouse support set -g mode-mouse on set -g mouse-resize-pane on set -g mouse-select-pane on set -g mouse-select-window on #which one has focus? set-option -g pane-active-border-fg green
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