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What are the replacement tools I should be looking at as a casual user of screen?

• nosrepa 1y ago
  Tmux
  • jmholla 1y ago
    If there was a way to get rid of Tmux's persistent status bar, I'd be happy to switch over. But last time I checked, you can't, and I want that real estate.
    • arp242 1y ago
      Add "set -g status" to your tmux.conf. You can even bind it to a key to toggle if you want.
• kstrauser 1y ago
  If you want screen-but-better: tmux. If you want a rethinking of the idea: zellij. I prefer the latter. It matches my mental model of such things, and lots of people talk about enjoying switching to it. Many others happily use the former daily.
  • bombcar 1y ago
    tmux is great but it's way too powerful for the 90% use case of screen - which is "let this process continue to run even if I disconnect or logout". I've had some luck with mosh, but that also seems kind of moribund. https://mosh.org https://mosh.org For my use case it's fine.
    • kstrauser 1y ago
      Along the lines of Mosh, I've migrated from it to Eternal Terminal (ET): https://eternalterminal.dev https://eternalterminal.dev
    • int_19h 1y ago
      If that is literally the only thing that you need, dtach is the ticket.
    • arp242 1y ago
      > tmux is great but it's way too powerful for the 90% use case of screen - which is "let this process continue to run even if I disconnect or logout". I guess, but does it really get in the way? I use tmux only for scrollback and having multiple "tabs" and sessions, and not much else. But the more advanced stuff like splits and whatnot never really get in my way.
    • db48x 1y ago
      Even screen is too powerful for that use case. Just use nohup or dtach instead.
    • lupusreal 1y ago
      Screen has some obscure functionality that tmux doesn't have. Handling serial port connections, whereas with tmux AFAIK you'd have to use minicom.