Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I suggest that you try tmux (or screen) - this is far superiour to >> multitab since you can easily also put it to the background or >> access it remotely > > Screen and tabs are different solutions to different problems. When > working with multiple SSH sessions to different machines, and not using > ClusterSSH, I find it most convenient to have a tab for each host, with > a screen session in that tab.
I find nested tmux/screen sessions rather convenient, and use them regularly for that purpose (my setup nests them automatically, so I do not have to do anything manually). > The main issue with nested screens being that the command > keystrokes seemed to always go to the wrong instance of screen. It's just a question to get used to press Ctrl-aa instead of Ctrl-a for remote/chroot sessions. Up to the rare instances when I run a chroot within a remote session and thus have to press even Ctrl-aaa, this is something I do not even have to think about anymore. Even if I should be unsure, a look at the bottom of the screen shows me immediately which nesting level I am in.
