_posts: 2016-03-14-autostart-tmux-weechat.md

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+layout: post
+comments: true
+title: "Autostarting tmux + WeeChat"
+category: [english]
+tags: [english, irc, tmux, cron, weechat]
+---
+
+*This is another note-to-self post, but I think other people might also
+ be wondering this.*
+
+ **THIS IS ENTIRELY UNTESTED UNTIL THE SHELL WHERE I AM USING THIS REBOOTS
+   THE NEXT TIME!**
+
+```cron
+## Environment
+# To avoid having to type absolute paths, append output of `printf "$PATH"`
+PATH=
+# Locale you wish to use
+LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
+# Timezone
+TZ=Europe/Helsinki
+
+# The actual autostart magic
+@reboot sleep 500 && tmux -2u new-session -s auto -d && tmux send -t auto weechat ENTER
+```
+
+* `@reboot` = tell cron to do this on reboot
+* `sleep 500` = the shell where I intent to use this primarily is using NFS
+  and I think it's reasonable to expect everything to be mounted in five
+  minutes.
+* `tmux -2u" = force enable 256 colors & UTF-8
+* `new-session -s auto -d` = start a new session with name `auto` (as in
+  automatically started) and detach it
+* `tmux send -t auto weechat ENTER` type `weechat` to tmux session named
+  auto and press ENTER to execute it.