Hey Rob,<br>
<br>
I'd be glad to tell you my work routine.<br>I do use <i>tmux</i> at home where I have X running on my desktop.<br>I use it at home out of force of habit, mostly. I, personally, don't have any qualms with having a tabs open in a xterm or anything like that.<br>
<br>However, when I am at my office I am working on headless servers via <i>ssh</i>.<br>I use <i>tmux </i>there because I can't really have multiple <i>Putty</i> instances open to the same server; Well, I <i>can</i>, but I don't like to.<br>
So, I just <i>ssh</i> in the server, fire-up <i>tmux, </i>and start working as I would normally in a shell.<br>Another thing I<i> </i>think is great about <i>tmux,</i> If I lose my <i>ssh </i>connection to the server, I don't lose my session(s)/data/work. <br>
I just <i>ssh </i>back in and re-attach my <i>tmux</i> session and I'm back to work.<br><br>-> Jake<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Robert Nesius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nesius@gmail.com">nesius@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div>I've always viewed screen as something handy when your console/terminal is an old-school wyse terminal. But you guys seem to be using screen/tmux in the course of every-day work. In a modern desktop environment with a window manager, is screen/tmux really better than, say, multiple xterms/konsoles/etc...? I guess I can see the advantage of having one big terminal window open and saving the overhead of window-widgets... but I often am working in several windows at once and referencing information/data in each. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In short, I'm not seeing the value but I think it's because my understanding of the capabilities of the tool and your workflows is incomplete. Would one or some of you be willing to describe your workflow to better illustrate why screen/tmux are so essential to you? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>-Rob</div><div><br></div>
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