On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2012.12.28 00:51, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: >> The benefit of the tmux client (terminal multiplexer) is that I can see >> all the screens at the same time and quickly switch between them. I >> believe Linux has screen(1) which does the same thing. > > tmux is generally easily available for Linux, and these days, there's > really no reason to use screen unless you absolutely cannot use tmux for > some reason.
Hmm, interesting. I often use screen when I need a terminal on a remote system (via ssh) and I'm mobile on my laptop, with periodic connection dropouts. With screen(1), I can cope with that, but it's a bit ugly at times. *puts tmux on his "look into this some day" list* ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list