<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Giles Orr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I was a longtime user of gnu screen, but discovered tmux 6 months ago or so and haven't looked back. I should check out terminator. Does anyone know what the key differences are between them?<br>
<br></div><div>With my current workspace setup (on KDE, if it matters), I have one terminal window stickied to all of my desktops. I separate my browser windows by desktop, and have my terminal work separated into tmux sessions. Works great for me.<br>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As a basic user of screen, I find that there are a couple small but annoying things I cannot do in tmux (and I couldn't even tell you what now as I haven't used tmux in a while - renaming sessions maybe, something else as well) that I can in screen. So, while I think tmux is probably "the way forward," I'm wondering what would motivate a long-time screen user to move from one to the other. I guess I'm hoping you'll tell us the good about using tmux and I'll finally make the move and stick with it ...<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm actually having difficulty imagining what could be easier with screen than tmux. The only thing I've found even moderately irritating is that its concept of windows and panes is slightly different than screen. When you split a window into panes, it creates a new shell prompt, rather than pulling one of the windows you already have into the new pane. So, for example, if you've got windows 1 through 5 in a session, and want to split your screen so that you can view windows 1 and 3 side by side, and *don't'* want to create a new prompt... well, I don't know if there's a way to do that.<br>
<br>As someone who used ratpoison for a long time, I got used to thinking of the windows as existing in this amorphous pile "behind" my screen, and the frames as the thing I actually manage. Creating a new frame (splitting the screen) has no impact on the windows, it just gives you a new place to put them. So, the tmux way of doing this is a little counter-intuitive to me.<br>
<br>Incidentally, to rename a tmux session, use "rename-session <new name>" at the tmux command prompt.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Giles<br><a href="http://www.gilesorr.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gilesorr.com/</a><br>
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