Recently, I learned there's this tmux tool.
in wiki, it defines tmux is a terminal multiplexer and I kinda get the idea of what it is capable of.
But I'm a little confused about the relationship between tmux(multiplexer) and terminal.
some questions:
- tmux needs to be used within a terminal application?
- if I use tmux, does it matter which type of terminal I use? Is that tmux will completely take over the control from terminal?
- using tmux with gnome-terminal is better than using
terminator
? Because tmux provide more feature than terminator?
Best Answer
TMUX is indeed a great tool and I use it a lot. Great for long-running applications and unreliable network connections.
TMUX is simply software that adds capabilities to a terminal session. In effect it provides a virtual terminal - actually any number of virtual terminals over a single "physical" terminal (not really physical of course since you are probably connected via a remote terminal session).
Maybe a better way of thinking about it is that you start a "shell" somehow (e.g. via SSH or a local terminal), then instead of directly interacting with the shell, you run an application that looks rather like the shell and passes commands through to the shell but sits on top. If your shell connection breaks for some reason, the virtual terminal application is still running so you can re-connect to it.