On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 5:40 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> Just learned about tmux, a terminal multiplexer supposedly similar to > screen. The man page tells me what it does and I want to understand when it > would be appropriate to use it. > > If you have used tmux (or another terminal multiplexer) please explain the > context. What benefits does it provide and in what situations? > > A curious mind wants to learn, > Those curious minds could use a search engine and possibly find Wikipedia, where those minds might find the following verbiage: "Screen is often used when a network connection to the terminal is unreliable, as a dropped network connection typically terminates all programs the user was running (child processes of the login session), due to the session ending and sending a "hangup" signal (SIGHUP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGHUP>) to all the child processes. Running the applications under screen means that the session does not terminate – only the now-defunct terminal gets detached – so applications don't even know the terminal has detached, and allows the user to reattach the session later and continue working from where they left off." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug