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I recently switched from screen to tmux; this is the killer feature for me. We use tmux to pair program with remote employees, and this allows us to stay in syn
by benburkert 16y ago
I recently switched from screen to tmux; this is the killer feature for me. We use tmux to pair program with remote employees, and this allows us to stay in sync automatically. With screen, we constantly had to tell the other pair which window we were looking at, which was a constant distraction. It also makes it easy to 'screencast' with multiple remote people.
- jedbrown 16y agoOkay, that sounds neat. What happens if multiple people type at the same time? Can you split the frame and somehow still have multiple people typing? Why tmux instead of a more featured remote desktop? Just curious, but now that I understand your use case, I think both modes are important.
- technomancy 16y ago> Why tmux instead of a more featured remote desktop? tmux has usable levels of latency. > Just curious, but now that I understand your use case, I think both modes are important. tmux supports both modes; the sharing one is just the one that's enabled by default.
- jedbrown 16y agoThanks, I just reread the manual page and found tmux new-session -t which behaves similarly to screen -x. When I asked on IRC, I was told that tmux did not support this mode so I didn't pursue it further.
- mcantor 16y agoIf you include a window list in your caption, I believe there is a specific flag that shows up (I want to say it's an asterisk), which indicates "other user viewing this window."