Dwm.tmux
a dwm-inspired window manager for tmux
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Hey, HN! With all recent agentic workflows being primarily terminal- and tmux-based, I wanted to share a little project I created about decade ago.I've continued to use this as my primary terminal "window manager" and wanted to share in case others might find it useful.I would love to hear about other's terminal-based workflows and any other tools you may use with similar functionality.
HN · launched Jan 24, 2026 · 101 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 106 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A tmux configuration and shell script plugin that mimics dwm tiling layouts using standard tmux CLI commands.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: tmux, zellij, abduco, dvtm, kitty
Concerns raised: Alt-screen mode only prints current screen, not full history, Difficult to get current state/snapshots of terminal without full scrollback, tmux has complexity overhead for simple session management, Plain tmux config has limitations requiring shell scripting workarounds, tmux keyboard control is unintuitive
Feature requests: Snapshots/current view capture without full history, DVtm-like alternative for multiplexing, Floating pane support, Graphical UI features leveraging libghostty
Competitors
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Attention rank: #21 of 195 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 85 days after the earliest competitor.
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