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Is there a good reason for a multiplexer to be a separate tool from a terminal? Or a window manager? Or is this just GNU/Unix philosophy (do one thing well and
by pkilgore 6y ago
Is there a good reason for a multiplexer to be a separate tool from a terminal? Or a window manager? Or is this just GNU/Unix philosophy (do one thing well and compose).
The reason I ask is that while I never used a multiplexer like tmux, I use the layout features of kiTTY every day and I can't quite see beyond that common use case (split this terminal into X windows with Y layouts).
- necrotic_comp 6y agopersistence and the ability to run it on a remote machine are the big draws. I can set up a tmux session on a remote box, have multiple connections to it, and close my terminal without losing my work.
- pkilgore 6y agoMakes sense.I am definitely not SSH ing around very much. Seems muxers are essential for more ops / infrastructure facing workloads