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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by res0nat0r on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:02AM (#26671973)
I'm not sure why everyone goes so crazy over tmux, I've been using screen for 20 years now and it's generally installed everywhere by default, even on remote servers I don't have root on, so I don't have any real reason to switch. 99% of both of these things both do what I need daily, so I usually don't use tmux unless screen doesn't happen to be available for some reason and tmux does. But more power to the devs for wanting to rewrite screen to be more modern with some additional features.
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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by irateswami on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:06AM (#26672002)
Screen is incredibly inefficient though.
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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by res0nat0r on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:55AM (#26672539)
That's always been the argument, but it's always been perfectly fine for me. I'm using it to run long running background tasks, or just let me switch between multiple remote hosts patching / debugging them, not to render some kind of HD game.
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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by fl0wenol on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:04PM (#26673350)
Genuinely curious: In what way?

Also: How is tmux about serial ports/USB->serial adapters?

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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by mprovost on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:22PM (#26672853)
And yet... I've been using screen for 20 years and it never seemed inefficient, even when running on a 180MHz Pentium Pro. These days I have to believe whatever it's doing must be pretty minor compared to the overall system performance, but I'd be interested in hearing what it does so inefficiently.
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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by guenthert on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:28PM (#26673628)
It worked fine in the early nineties on a '386. I can't tell how efficient it is, because I never had reason to worry about it.
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Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard by gbraad on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:28PM (#26672922)
Still using screen to easily run a background which I can occasionally check up on. Never (perhaps once a year) seem to do this with tmux.
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