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Other than the vertical split, does tmux do anything that GNU screen can't do? I find screen is more readily available on a wide variety of systems.
by AjithAntony 15y ago
Other than the vertical split, does tmux do anything that GNU screen can't do? I find screen is more readily available on a wide variety of systems.
- irahul 15y agoConfiguring tmux is easier than configuring screen. And you can patch screen to do vertical splits. The patched screen has been the one that installs in Ubuntu for some time now.
- eshvk 15y agoFor some reason the vertical split patch (available on Macports) stopped working once I upgraded to OSX Lion and I find myself depending on terminal "tabs" to mimic it (which is slow and painful). Well, maybe it's time to make the move to tmux!
- JanezStupar 15y agoTmux is easier to customize, more stable and being actively developed. Whereas GNU Screen has been declared an unmaintainable pile of spaghetti code and left to bitrot. The King is dead! Long live the King!
- rjh29 15y agoIIRC screen does not remember your split window configuration when you detach.
- gchpaco 15y agoIf you want to go IDE qua IDE, with the shell linking everything up, tmux is much easier to control from the command line than screen is. The multiple sessions business is actually quite cool with a utility like tmuxinator; you can switch to and from them and retain clipboard status, etc. The way the window splitting works reminds me a lot of xmonad (which I also run) and I'm not sure yet which mode of use I like better. Screen doesn't handle multiple clients with different window sizes especially gracefully; because I run tmux and xmonad I tend to have weird shaped windows, which behave exactly as you might hope with multiple clients. I'm not sold sold on tmux over screen, but I do like what I'm seeing.