rse

Remote sessions with multiple local WM terminal windows (optimized for i3)

Background

I do most of my work in a terminal on a VPS. This allows me to switch between different work machines, as long as I have a Internet connection.

RSE manages my different work sessions/projects on remote machines.

I thought that it might be useful to others, so I extracted the personal settings into a config-file (JSON) and published it.

Components/Dependencies

• xtitle

• wmctrl

• SSH

• MOSH

• terminal (ex: urxvt, xterm, st, terminator or your prefered terminal)

• session manager (ex: abduco, detach, tmux, screen)

• shell (ex: zsh, bash, sh)

• dmenu (or rofi)

How does it work?

rse opens a new terminal and executes mosh to the server within it. rse forwards a session creation or attachment to what ever session manager you are using.

The terminal window title will be named ##. The session in the session manager will be named #.

rse uses window titles and session names to manage state.

Installation

Install cli command

npm -g install fsrc-rse

Usage

Get instructions by executing

rse

My example configuration

$HOME/.config/fsrc/rse.config


{
  "ssh": {
    "cmd": "ssh"
  },
  "mosh": {
    "cmd": "mosh"
  },
  "sessionManager": {
    "cmd": "abduco",
    "listArg": "-l",
    "createArgs": [
      "zsh"
    ]
  },
  "shell": "zsh",
  "separator": "#",
  "terminal": {
    "cmd": "urxvtc",
    "titleArg": "-T",
    "executeArg": "-e",
    "args": []
  },
  "dmenu" : {
    "cmd": "rofi",
    "promptArg" : "-mesg",
    "args": ["-dmenu"]
  },
  "debug": false
}