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For working on remote machines, I need 3 things:

* show multiple terminals on screen. The best solution is to use a tiling window manager. Both MacOS and Windows have limited windows tiling capabilities. * run long term TUI applications (like editors). The best solution is mosh. * run long term CLI applications (like shells). The best solution is dtach.

tmux helps all 3, but not particular good at either.

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> tmux helps all 3, but not particular good at either.

iTerm2 on macOS has some nice tmux integration[1]. Basically, you run a tmux session (using tmux -CC), but the actual window management on the client side is handled by iTerm2. This works pretty nicely with the tiling WM (Amethyst[2]) I use on macOS.

If anybody is aware of Wayland compositors that integrate similarly, please let me know. I'd love to be able to do the same on my linux machines.

[1]: https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html

[2]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

it's good at the first point. if you use a tiling wm you are not multiplexing the remote connection, or am I missing something?

you can multiplex using plain ssh: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Multiplexing

we're using mosh

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