Hey Rob, I'd be glad to tell you my work routine. I do use *tmux* at home where I have X running on my desktop. 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. However, when I am at my office I am working on headless servers via *ssh*. I use *tmux *there because I can't really have multiple *Putty* instances open to the same server; Well, I *can*, but I don't like to. So, I just *ssh* in the server, fire-up *tmux, *and start working as I would normally in a shell. Another thing I* *think is great about *tmux,* If I lose my *ssh *connection to the server, I don't lose my session(s)/data/work. I just *ssh *back in and re-attach my *tmux* session and I'm back to work. -> Jake On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > 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? > > Thanks, > -Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120410/54cd9e5e/attachment.html>