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	wicket	2014-12-02 , 01:27
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Originally Posted by Tigerroast

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.

I hadn't heard of Ratpoison before. There's also Xpra but I still haven't gotten around to trying it out. Unlike Ratpoison it's not a window manager so it should be usable with whatever window manager/desktop environment you like.

Originally Posted by Tigerroast

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.

Who needs tabs when you've got Screen/tmux? :P

Originally Posted by Tigerroast

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

Check out the tmux FAQ for the main differences. Some of my favourite features include vertical pane splitting, automatic renaming of windows/titles, better UTF-8 support, the status bar being on by default. I also like that the default key binding doesn't break the shell usage of Ctrl-A to move the cursor to the beginning of the line, but bare in mind that a lot people hate it and end up remapping the keys to a layout similar to Screen (the prefix key in tmux is Ctrl-B). I prefer the key mapping for handling nested sessions too (press Ctrl-B twice). The memory usage is much better in tmux too!

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