Thread: Replacing GUI Apps on PC with Console-Based Apps!
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Tigerroast is offline Tigerroast
2014-12-02 , 00:05
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#9
Originally Posted by wicket View Post
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned GNU screen or tmux (I used to use screen but later switched to tmux). I personally can't live without it. Not only is it a great way to manage multiple terminal instances but for me the killer feature is the ability to connect and attach your entire session from a remote location via SSH and that you can leave your session running when you disconnect.
I'm just as surprised as you are that I didn't dedicate a paragraph or 5 or 6 to GNU Screen. I did mention it while talking about how Terminology can split like GNU Screen can, but Screen really is a champ.

I've used Ratpoison quite a bit, which is the X equivalent of Screen. It's quite a nifty desktop. Super-lightweight to boot.

As for terminal emulators I've grown very fond of the Quake-style drop-down. I use Yakuake and set it to run "tmux a || tmux" on startup so it will automatically attach a tmux session if one exists otherwise it will start a new one.
So have I. I use the drop-down terminal extention for GNOME3. It gets the job done for quick tasks (updating, htop/iftop) or running moc, but lack of tabs is pretty disappointing. Yakuake/Guake are pretty nice.

I've looked at tmux before. What are the advantages it has over Screen?