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tmux vs. GNU Screen What do you use and why?
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tmux vs. GNU Screen

What do you use and why?
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>>52538483
Screen. tmux's keybinds conflicted with something else and I couldn't be arsed to go through its arcane tomes to figure out how to fix it.
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>>52538483
tmux
it's pretty much a superset of screen; as far as i know there are no good reasons to use screen aside from familiarity, and even then you can bind ctrl-a as your prefix and use it as you would screen for most things
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>>52539126
>ctrl-a
How do you move to the beginning of the line with screen?
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>>52539172
ctrl-a a
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neither unless I absolutely must work with one terminal.

much rather use Xorg and spawn and manipulate multiple terminal emulators and control them with much better control schemes.
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>>52539191
How do you make your remote sessions persistent?
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>>52539186
That's fucked up, man.
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>>52539191
what about persistence? my primary use case for tmux is keeping a lot of ssh connections/scrollback histories alive and easily accessable, the pane/tab management stuff is largely an afterthought
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>>52538483
On my server I use screen, just so that I don't lost everything on disconnect.

On my desktop I use a tiling window manager and just spawn multiple terminals using a keyboard shortcut
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used screen until I got a mac and used iterm2 which had tmux integration.
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>>52538483
tmux

Configuration is much less cryptic.
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>>52538483
I tried both. Went back to screen for the little use cases I have (when I ssh into mah server).
If I remember correctly they don't work exactly the same way, as in "not the same features". So I have like one vertical split and then cycle through the 6 other hidden windows in the right pane while leaving the left pane as it is for example.
I remember that not being that easy / straight forward in tmux or not possible.
But screen really seems old and crufty. It's already obvious because there's not easy converse to "C-a tab". If you want to rotate backwards, you have to tab all the way through again. C-a Shift <Tab> would be really useful for example.

Copy mode in screen is also nice sometimes since you can't always use the mouse. Already uses vi keybindings so I like it a lot.
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>>52538483
Screen. I only use it for scroll-back so I just picked between Screen and tmux at random via coinflip.
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>>52539011
this
screen is super compfy desu senpai desu
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Screen on server and tmux on desktop. I started using tmux because screen wouldn't play nice with whichever dropdown terminal I was using at the time.

Tmux seems nicer, but I never delved into the finer features of screen, only having used it to carry an irssi session, so it's hard to say.
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>>52538483
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTse5Elq8s
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