Re:Love, hate, and tmux
by jedbrown on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:04PM
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This article is pretty superficial, but I've been using tmux lately and my primary complaint is that you can't attach to the same session without syncing them. Well, something I've been doing with screen for 10 years because I find it handy is to attach to different windows within the same screen session from different terminals. I might split them across the same screen, put them on different workspaces, or even run from different machines. Why would I even want to have multiple views of exactly the same thing?
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Re:Love, hate, and tmux
by benburkert on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:19PM
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I recently switched from screen to tmux; this is the killer feature for me. We use tmux to pair program with remote employees, and this allows us to stay in sync automatically. With screen, we constantly had to tell the other pair which window we were looking at, which was a constant distraction. It also makes it easy to 'screencast' with multiple remote people.
Okay, that sounds neat. What happens if multiple people type at the same time? Can you split the frame and somehow still have multiple people typing? Why tmux instead of a more featured remote desktop? Just curious, but now that I understand your use case, I think both modes are important.
Re:Love, hate, and tmux
by technomancy on Friday December 10, 2010 @08:10PM
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> Why tmux instead of a more featured remote desktop?
tmux has usable levels of latency.
> Just curious, but now that I understand your use case, I think both modes are important.
tmux supports both modes; the sharing one is just the one that's enabled by default.
Thanks, I just reread the manual page and found tmux new-session -t which behaves similarly to screen -x. When I asked on IRC, I was told that tmux did not support this mode so I didn't pursue it further.