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I use the terminal for almost everything but rarely use tmux, I have a window manager for window management so tmux doesn't really seem too useful in that regard

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A huge benefit of tmux is session management, where you can resume a session on a different terminal. I use it on my desktop, so I can ssh in on my laptop when working from home, and immediately pick up where I left off.

What if I use screen?

`tmux` is directly intended to replace `screen`.

But not for those want to communicate via serial console.

Or is there anything was changed?

Ahh, I said such in tongue and cheek. Indeed, I recently had need to communicate via serial console and searching Stackoverflow suggested screen. I tried tmux and... nope.

I ended up using `minicom` instead.

Alas, serial ports are pretty nifty but I get the impression that they are distinctly becoming a lost art

Actually yeah you are right. I use tmux for running a doom server with my friends. Sorry I forgot about that because I don't generally need to log into it

Do you ever ssh into remote servers? Tmux would give you that same pane management on a remote server without having to SSH into the server in each pane.

tmux isn't a window manager.

He probaly means tiling window manager specifically, which makes tmux's binary partitioning redundant for all but remote work.

I used to use tmux much more heavily locally before I switched to a tiling window manager, now I only use it when I need to do a lot of work over SSH or am using an unstable connection or long running process etc.

I get you.

Since I moved exclusively to i3 some 10 years ago, I find myself seldomly using screen/tmux anymore.

The splitting, moving and switching of windows is just more convenient. Tmux has been relegated to start long running processes on remote servers, and remote pair programming sessions.

I could see myself using tmux more if I could find a way to get a more seemless experience when having to scroll panes, copy/paste, handle $TERM properly with vim (I always end up with partially refreshing vim colors under tmux), etc

the main advantage for tmux is in remote use. i work on multiple machines (laptop, desktop, etc) and i often like to access one from the other. tmux allows me to switch devices in a seamless way. i don't use i3 but you are right about the splitting in particular. it would be nice if we could have more gui integration of tmux. like a graphical tmux client that maps split windows to resizeable gui panes

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