Hi

> Hello.  Given how much cleaner tmux code and configuration is, I'd love
> to be able to switch from screen.  For most of what I do, this is quite
> doable.  However, there are some differences from screens behaviour, and
> screen's is strongly preferable to me.
> 
> 1. When I have two clients connected to the same session, I want them
> to be able to select windows independently, rather than being locked
> together.  I see no way to completely do that, though if I know the
> maximum number of clients, I can reserve one session per client, and
> then can rebind keys to create and link windows through N sessions, and
> similarly unlink them.

Use grouped sessions.

> 2. tmux has panes being strictly under windows.  In screen, each "pane"
> is effectively another view created by the client, that can view each
> any pseudo-terminal.  Under terminals, I find screen's paradigm to be much
> nicer, though if (1) were doable, this would be completely doable under
> X11, by just having each "pane" be a seperate xterm.

No. I initially tried to do this but it was a complete nightmare to
implement. It might be possible to do it now but it would be a big change.

You could probably also run tmux inside tmux although be careful not to try and
display a window inside itself.

> Is there any way to get these two behaviours in tmux?
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Denney
> -><-

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