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Tmux is a great program, especially when trying to edit on a remote server. But I think it's worth pointing out that for most purposes, Tmux is basically just a Tiling Window Manager that only works on your terminals.

Tiling Window Managers are awesome, and I totally see why people who can't use one would choose to use Tmux, but if you have the option, I would totally recommend just going with the TWM and skipping Tmux.

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Used Ion for years but finally just "upgraded" to fvwm2 and multiple tmux terminal windows. Reason? More often than not dozens of Unix hosts are being accessed through SSH rather than X. Tmux is always there, regardless of method of connection. Also, use the antique "nvi" (rather than Vim or Neovim) whenever possible. Same reason; it's always there, no tweaking.

If I find myself craving extra functionality I'm probably overthinking things and am in need of a vacation.

I use multiple tmux sessions within my tiling wm (i3). A tmux sessions is for management of terminal contexts for a specific task/project. i3 is for managing the set of contexts (terminal, browser, etc) for a task/project in any given desktop and then multiple desktops for different tasks/projects. It's also nice for the sake of having another paste-buffer, but this is perhaps a little idiosyncratic.

I use tmux within my tiling window manager: it manages my terminal, and the WM manages windows. It works great for me, because this way I only have a single terminal to worry about.

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