I've taken to using rubber and a Makefile to help in my LaTeX projects. I create a main directory with a .tex file, and put any additional ones in a tex/ directory.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
XPRA, mosh, and tmux - a little slice of heaven
XPRA is basically mosh for X environments. It lets you connect to an X environment in a persistent way.
So, my new workflow uses mosh, tmux and XPRA to accomplish great things.
On work machine:
which will start an xpra server on display hook 7, and launch a new tmux instance with name 'remote' that is attached to said display device. This ensures that whenever we try to launch an X instance (i.e. 'ipython --pylab' ) it will be able to attach to an X device
On laptop:
This will have xpra attach to the remote X session display, and run mosh for a persistent ssh connection to my work machine, and once connected attach to my remote tmux session which already is connected to the xpra display, and I have a working, fast persistent ssh + X forwarding connection to my work computer.
What this means is that I have a connection to my work computer that behaves transparently as if it were my work computer, plus will fix itself if I put my laptop to sleep and wake it back up. So I can plot things in ipython all I want without a care in the world.
For extra fun, alias those commands on the respective machines to make your life easier.
So, my new workflow uses mosh, tmux and XPRA to accomplish great things.
On work machine:
xpra start :7 && DISPLAY=:7 tmux new -s remote
which will start an xpra server on display hook 7, and launch a new tmux instance with name 'remote' that is attached to said display device. This ensures that whenever we try to launch an X instance (i.e. 'ipython --pylab' ) it will be able to attach to an X device
On laptop:
xpra attach ssh:<hostname>:7 & mosh <hostname> -- tmux attach -t remote
This will have xpra attach to the remote X session display, and run mosh for a persistent ssh connection to my work machine, and once connected attach to my remote tmux session which already is connected to the xpra display, and I have a working, fast persistent ssh + X forwarding connection to my work computer.
What this means is that I have a connection to my work computer that behaves transparently as if it were my work computer, plus will fix itself if I put my laptop to sleep and wake it back up. So I can plot things in ipython all I want without a care in the world.
For extra fun, alias those commands on the respective machines to make your life easier.
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