[supervisor] Support spawning Gitpod tasks as tmux windows

[axonasif]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Tmux integration would allow for easy interactivity with Gitpod tasks on SSH and give a more 'first-class' feel to neo(vim)/emacs/ssh users in general.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

• A option in preferences for enabling tmux integration.
• supervisor then opens all Gitpod tasks inside a tmux session as windows.
• (proposal): Auto-install gitpod.tmux plugin when the integration is enabled by executing the plugin from /etc/tmux.conf. (to provide a similar experience as the Gitpod VSCode theme/integrations)
• Since all tasks would be opened in tmux, set tmux as the default shell in Machine settings.json of vscode with the following: here

Describe alternatives you've considered

• https://github.com/axonasif/dotsh#tmux-integration

Additional context

Internal slack thread.

[akosyakov]

I think we should think how we make IDEs pluggable integrations not built in in supervisor as a general solution.

[axonasif]

That would be great as well.

[axonasif]

BTW, one of the other reasons for suggesting to implement this to supervisor was to also use it for #7671 implementation where you'd pass on /.supervisor into the testing container and launch the Gitpod tasks in tmux for easy debugging. But it's just a proposal 🙂

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