I always find it annoying to manage nested tmux sessions so I usually use Kitty's keyboard driven tab management and tmux for server side sessions.

▲ quesera 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I have a status line indicator to show whether tmux is in Control mode.

So, even when nested, it's always clear what will happen. One nested session (two total) is manageable. Adding another gets annoying, but the need is rare.

▲ braincat31415 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is what I do for nested sessions:

  bind -n S-up \
  set -g status-bg white \; \
  set -g prefix None

  bind -n S-down \
  set -g prefix C-a \; \
  set -g status-bg green

Press Shift-ArrowUp, and all control will be passed to the nested session.

	▲	quesera 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, that's smart, thank you! Looks like it would work especially well for multiple levels of nesting.

▲ godelski 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I've also tried the status line indicator but it's difficult to balance between being too visible and invisible. So just leads to doing the right commands on the wrong session. Though I find any nested session is rarely needed. I mean locally, a session is a window so I do that.

▲ quesera 6 days ago | parent [-]

I haven't had a problem with indicator visibility, but I remember spending some time getting it to a place that worked for me.

Here's what I use:

  set -g status-left "#{?client_prefix,#[bg=colour76]^,#[bg=colour235]_} [#S]"
  set -g status-right ' | #[fg=colour76]#h#[fg=default] %H%M%Z'

Right side included just for completeness. The conditional colour setting was the useful part, IIRC.

	▲	godelski 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't mean rendering of an icon so much as I mean that humans become blind to persistent things (and frequent things). Losing glasses on your head kinda thing. I don't find a mirror as helpful as having a fixed location to put my glasses when I'm done with them. Same strategy But yeah, when I didn't have splits and things in my emulator I used something like you did. Make a remote section visually distinct. To a lot of extent I still do, just this isn't necessary through tmux anymore

▲ EPendragon 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It is interesting to see that you use tmux and Kitty together. Is it faster or more convenient than using just one tool?