[PLUG] Terminal multiplexers

David Bridges dbridges at austin.rr.com
Wed Mar 27 13:40:31 UTC 2019


I think that searching for tmux examples will provide you with the
answers you are looking for. The first hit (link below) seemed to
explain it to me.

https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-tmux/

--
David

On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 06:22 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Russell Senior wrote:
> 
> > "Screen is often used when a network connection to the terminal is
> > unreliable, as a dropped network connection typically terminates
> > all
> > programs the user was running (child processes of the login
> > session), due
> > to the session ending and sending a "hangup" signal (SIGHUP
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGHUP>;) to all the child
> > processes.
> 
> Yes, I've used screen to keep a process running after I've logged off
> the
> system, but screen is apparently not a terminal multiplexer.
> 
> My web search for tmux tells me it's a tool that supports multiple
> running
> applications on a single terminal. This suggests -- to me -- that it
> provides console services analagous to what a GUI desktop environment
> does.
> Which is why I asked under what circumstances would it be useful for
> those
> of us working on a single host or local network.
> 
> Rich
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