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Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by jacknews on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:47PM (#36609927)
I must be missing something fundamental. tmux is a terminal multiplexer, as in you get to run multiple virtual terminals over a single actual terminal (eg ssh). And then tmuxc breaks these virtual terminals out into actual terminals?

Why do you need tmux at all in that case, just fire up a bunch of terminals?

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Re:Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age by E39M5S62 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:13PM (#36610153)
tmux, for me, is about session persistence. I run multiple tmux sessions on a bastion host at work. tmuxc lets me reconnect to them each morning and then move them around my monitors as I see fit. I can hit a single key combination and have a new terminal open up with a shell on my bastion host - or any other host that I have a tmux/tmuxc session on.
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