--- title: mucks: now with the dvtm flavor! | daily.dev description: An update on mucks, a lightweight session manager for terminal multiplexers, rewritten from shell script into AWK for more predictable quote handling. The new... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mucks-now-with-the-dvtm-flavor--lkqytjm8z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: mucks: now with the dvtm flavor! | daily.dev og:description: An update on mucks, a lightweight session manager for terminal multiplexers, rewritten from shell script into AWK for more predictable quote handling. The new... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mucks-now-with-the-dvtm-flavor--lkqytjm8z og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lKqYTJM8z.png og:image:alt: mucks: now with the dvtm flavor! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # mucks: now with the dvtm flavor! **[zserge's blog](https://daily.dev/sources/zserge)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An update on mucks, a lightweight session manager for terminal multiplexers, rewritten from shell script into AWK for more predictable quote handling. The new version adds support for DVTM alongside tmux and screen, introduces muxer-specific hooks so layout files can run different commands depending on which multiplexer is active, and explains a small config.h patch needed to control DVTM through mucks (used together with abduco). Configuration file syntax remains unchanged from the previous version. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I make dvtm controllable via a named pipe like tmux send-keys? Enable the "send" command in dvtm's config.h so commands can be sent to dvtm's named pipe while it runs in the background, then pair it with abduco for session persistence. A small patch removing the line that disables the send command in commands[] is required before dvtm will accept externally piped commands. _Developers scripting terminal workflows track tooling tricks like dvtm automation on daily.dev._ ### Why did mucks get rewritten from shell script to AWK? Different shells handle quotes inconsistently inside the "read" command used with tmux's send-keys, making shell-based scripting fragile across environments. Switching the mucks session manager to AWK produced cleaner, shorter code while keeping the same .mucksrc configuration syntax for end users. _Anyone comparing scripting languages for CLI tools can follow similar tooling trade-offs on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A deep dive into cmux](https://daily.dev/posts/a-deep-dive-into-cmux-cy5qgzdpv) · Flavio Copes · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [coder/mux: A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development](https://daily.dev/posts/coder-mux-a-desktop-app-for-isolated-parallel-agentic-development-xwzfjgmu6) · Hacker News · 8 upvotes · 0 comments - [Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying](https://daily.dev/posts/looking-beyond-tmux-and-screen-8-terminal-multiplexers-worth-trying-3v9aibk3d) · It's Foss · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#bash](https://daily.dev/tags/bash) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/mucks-now-with-the-dvtm-flavor--lkqytjm8z) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"mucks: now with the dvtm flavor!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mucks-now-with-the-dvtm-flavor--lkqytjm8z","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/mucks-now-with-the-dvtm-flavor--lkqytjm8z"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T10:20:20.603Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T10:21:51.387Z","description":"An update on mucks, a lightweight session manager for terminal multiplexers, rewritten from shell script into AWK for more predictable quote handling. 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