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Re:Bossman: tmux-backed shell for your OS X menu bar by icefox on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:48PM (#7306352)
The readme really doesn't give a good indication of what it is. A screenshot in the markdown might go a long way depending on what it actually does.

I mean it sounds like it overloads every single menu bar command for whatever application you are running, but that doesn't make much sense. Alternatively it could be an app that has a menu bar with say File/Send Command that you click and something pops up, but that seems silly. Why would I launch that app when I could just launch a terminal and connect to tmux.... Or maybe it is one of those non-hardware icons that sit in the hardware section of the menu bar running all of the time?

I guess the real question is why wouldn't I just use the terminal to type?

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Re:Bossman: tmux-backed shell for your OS X menu bar by ics on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:43PM (#7307129)
"Alternatively it could be an app that has a menu bar with say File/Send Command that you click and something pops up, but that seems silly."

Bingo! It just sits in the menubar so you can run things, and the hotkey is there for you to do anything you want with. Set it to pop open a window and attach, announce "your task is complete", or whatever. Simple, boring, silly, etc. Just for those times when a terminal window would get in your way because you're working on something else. That being said, there are plenty of interesting features that could be added to make the idea more compelling.

Edit: my noprocrast is about to kick in and I think I'll honor it... so thanks for taking a look, hope I didn't waste anyone's time.

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