mikaela.github.io/_posts/2016-03-14-autostart-tmux-weechat.md

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!

## 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.