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minus-squareEmanuel@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoIf you’re already using a tiling window manager, what is the point of tmux? Genuine question, as I often see people here doing this with WMs such as sway, hyprland and the like.
minus-squareMatúš Maštena @lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoBecause it’s practical in a sense that you don’t need to have a million windows open.
minus-squareRuaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh@friendica.melinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years ago@Emanuel Persistent terminal sessions. If the WM crashes, you still have your shell session. Say, if you’re in the middle of a system upgrade. Also, remoting in. If your session is in tmux, you can ssh into the machine and connect to an existing shell. @TenTypekMatus
minus-squareEmanuel@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoTrue, must be a blessing when ssh’ing.
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If you’re already using a tiling window manager, what is the point of tmux? Genuine question, as I often see people here doing this with WMs such as sway, hyprland and the like.
Because it’s practical in a sense that you don’t need to have a million windows open.
Is that more memory efficient?
Yes, it is.
@Emanuel
Persistent terminal sessions. If the WM crashes, you still have your shell session. Say, if you’re in the middle of a system upgrade.
Also, remoting in. If your session is in tmux, you can ssh into the machine and connect to an existing shell.
@TenTypekMatus
True, must be a blessing when ssh’ing.