Since nobody has said yet, I use screen pretty heavily. Want to run a long running task, starting it from your phone? Run screen to create a detachable session then the long running command. You can then safely close out of your terminal or detach with ctrl a, d and continue in your terminal doing something else. screen -r to get back to it.
How does screen / tmux work when detached from a session, how does it keep the session alive (both when running locally, and while ssh:ing to a server)? Is there a daemon involved?
I recently switched to tmux and boy, it’s way better. I basically use only tmux now anymore. Creating panes to have two processes in one glance, multiple windows, awesome. Plus all the benefits of screen.
Since nobody has said yet, I use screen pretty heavily. Want to run a long running task, starting it from your phone? Run screen to create a detachable session then the long running command. You can then safely close out of your terminal or detach with ctrl a, d and continue in your terminal doing something else. screen -r to get back to it.
Don’t use
screen, but I do usetmuxpretty heavily.How does screen / tmux work when detached from a session, how does it keep the session alive (both when running locally, and while ssh:ing to a server)? Is there a daemon involved?
I recently switched to tmux and boy, it’s way better. I basically use only tmux now anymore. Creating panes to have two processes in one glance, multiple windows, awesome. Plus all the benefits of screen.
Try zellij. Not as popular as tmux, but very intuitive to use.
Maybe someone reading wants to now about
prefix+s. This doubles your excitement.In a similar vein,
nohuplets you send tasks to the background and seems to be everywhere.I Always forget to run screen first, so I just rely heavily on dtach
Simply change your terminal command to execute the terminal multiplexer of your choice.
man terminal_of_choice, look for (start) command.Also, screen can connect to an UART device or serial or anything that offers up a TTY