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1) Your work will survive the need to restart your WM, or X itself. Pretend for a moment that you run NVidia drivers, which kill X hard, and you're dumped to GD
by zhengyi13 13y ago
1) Your work will survive the need to restart your WM, or X itself. Pretend for a moment that you run NVidia drivers, which kill X hard, and you're dumped to GDM or similar with no warning. Your state is preserved.
2) Your work/state can be remotely accessed, assuming e.g. you work primarily on a desktop, and you wish to go home, and pick up where you left off, via VPN.
- blueblob 13y agoYou can also use it to run things like a daemon. For instance rtorrent does not have a daemon mode because you can use screen or tmux to "hide" it by running it in tmux and then detaching. You can then re-attach to the processes to interact with them later. You could probably do this with tags in a tiling WM. I like to do this with rtorrent and pianobar (command line www.pandora.com client).