cmux
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terminal emulator
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How HN took it
9 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 6 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 7 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Vertical tabs and notification ring are useful for tracking agents
From 3 comments
This solves a real pain point. I run multiple AI coding agents in parallel and the biggest UX problem isn't the agents — it's knowing which one needs attention without…
cranberryturkey on HNVertical tabs for a terminal emulator seems killer, I'll be trying this out for sure.
mikkupikku on HNGave this a run and it was pretty intuitive. Good work!
dchu17 on HN
Native, terminal-first approach avoids Electron lag
From 2 comments
This solves a real pain point. I run multiple AI coding agents in parallel and the biggest UX problem isn't the agents — it's knowing which one needs attention without…
cranberryturkey on HNVertical tabs for a terminal emulator seems killer, I'll be trying this out for sure.
mikkupikku on HN
Objections
Buggy early builds: tab switching, closing tabs, and typing issues
From 2 comments
Looks like this could be really cool, but it's a buggy mess. Can't switch top tabs, can't close tabs. Once I lose focus in a tab, I can't ever type again in that terminal tab.…
twostorytower on HNGot a bunch of errors when starting Claude.
swah on HN
Copy-paste and keybinding conflicts with Ghostty config
From 2 comments
Ah, I regret training myself into Caps Lock to Escape. Well, a personal problem then. It doesn't seem to have copy-paste support that I have in my Ghostty but I bet that's a…
arjie on HNHey, this looks seriously awesome. Love the ideas here, specifically: the programmability (I haven't tried it yet, but had been considering learning tmux partly for this),…
johnthedebs on HN
Sidebar squishes terminals when many are appended horizontally
From 1 comment
Hey, this is great. And looks similiar to WaveTerm https://www.waveterm.dev/ I currently use WaveTerm and it's pretty good. (But a bit laggy sometimes, i think it's electron…
snisarenko on HN
Requests
Isolated browser profiles per agent
From 1 comment
This solves a real pain point. I run multiple AI coding agents in parallel and the biggest UX problem isn't the agents — it's knowing which one needs attention without…
cranberryturkey on HN
Remote SSH support for workspaces
From 2 comments
Can’t wait for better SSH support. We have a warm container host that spawns a fresh container so we get nice sandboxing and isolation, but the UX has left us with basically the…
iamnafets on HN> If two agents are working on the same local dev server, do they share the browser context or get isolated profiles Currently they share browser context. Adding isolated…
lawrencechen on HN
Pane zoom and command palette
From 1 comment
Hey, this looks seriously awesome. Love the ideas here, specifically: the programmability (I haven't tried it yet, but had been considering learning tmux partly for this),…
johnthedebs on HN
Disable reordering of tabs by notification recency
From 1 comment
I've been looking for something like this. It was just two weeks ago I had Claude modify Wezterm to add tree-style vertical reorderable tabs. It works OK but your solution is…
sltr on HN
Questions
Does it support Gemini CLI and Kiro CLI notifications
From 1 comment
Awesome work, keen to try it out tomorrow. Can I make the notifications work with Gemini CLI and Kiro CLI too?
AM1010101 on HN
Does it support Claude Code agent teams
From 1 comment
Looks really useful! Does this support the new Claude Code agent teams feature, so it will open all the team members in their own pane?
boloust on HN
Alternatives named
tmux-based tools like tabby and kmux
From 2 comments
Nice work! I have actually been working on something similar. Main differentiators: - Based on tmux, so you can connect to a persistent session from multiple devices -…
bdbz on HNive 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.
cwel on HN
zmx
From 1 comment
Have you looked into zmx? [0] It doesn't have built-in notifications and there's no panel to see all the open sessions, but I wonder how hard that would be to add. I've used zmx…
jvican on HN
WaveTerm
From 1 comment
Hey, this is great. And looks similiar to WaveTerm https://www.waveterm.dev/ I currently use WaveTerm and it's pretty good. (But a bit laggy sometimes, i think it's electron…
snisarenko on HN
iTerm2 vertical tabs
From 1 comment
iTerm2 has vertical tabs too https://iterm2.com/3.0/documentation-preferences.html#:~:text=Tab%20Bar%20Location,of%20tab%20looks.
lawrencechen on HN