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/
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?
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.
Got it. So it doesn't replace my SSH client, it gives me a better experience regardless of how I connect.