[kwlug-disc] Screen vs Tmux

Erik Schnetter schnetter at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 09:29:53 EDT 2019


For me, the main point of tmux or screen is that they keep the remote
session active when the ssh connection drops. The advantage of tmux
here is that I can give names to sessions and reattach by name,
whereas screen numbers them according to their process id.

-erik

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:00 AM Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I started with Tmux. Guess Screen might be similar. I usually use Tmux to split screens and type the same command at the same time. We have an installation script which needs to run on all machines. And sometimes I tail -f access logs on all split screens and see where the request lands.
> I saw people use tabs as workspaces and it was fantastic. But it's not what I usually do so I only memorize the split screen commands so far.
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:26 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,  (cross-posting from GTALUG)
>>
>> I try to use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) whenever possible, even
>> though I have VMware and VirtualBox available.  One thing that WSL
>> terminal lacks is "tab" that all other terminals have.  So, that calls
>> for Screen and Tmux.  But, which one?  And, why?
>> --
>> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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