Th3 Core
Why We Are Here => Web Development => Topic started by: littleman on February 15, 2021, 06:26:03 AM
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and you don't use tmux already you really should learn how to use it.
Tmux has two really good features that make life in a term window much easier:
1 It allows you to split up a screen into as many physical spaces as you want. See picture.
2 It allows you to close off and relaunch a session without losing your workflow or to lose your place in the process. Any application/tasks launched will continue run in the background and you could check in on them from anyplace you like. That means you could start a task at the office, close down the term, go home and ssh and relaunch tmux to pick up the processes like you never logged out.
https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-tmux/
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Thanks. I do spend a fair bit of time using the command line via SSH. Unfortunately, it's almost always from a Windows OS connecting via SSH to a Linux OS.
I keep thinking of ditching Windows. There are fewer and fewer programs that are Windows-only (or very expensive to get a new license) where I really don't want to switch - InDesign, PowerGREP. I still prefer Photoshop to GIMP.
Are you using WSL (main reason I would change to Windows 10) or native Linux?
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I've never used WSL. The only recent time I've used windows was a work situation where I was using a provided laptop, and most of the time I just spent connecting to a linux server to get most of my work done.
Sorry, I wasn't clear, tmux is a server side application and should be agnostic to which OS you are connecting from. It should work with Putty or any other ssh client.
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Got it. So it doesn't replace my SSH client, it gives me a better experience regardless of how I connect.