You might not need tmux

9 months ago

The author discusses their long-term use of tmux and the issues they've encountered with it, such as color rendering problems, buffer scrollback, and lack of support for experimental terminal protocols.
They explore alternatives to tmux for session persistence and window management, highlighting tools like shpool that focus on doing one thing well.
The author shares their setup using shpool for session persistence and local window managers for window management, especially when working over SSH.
They detail their ssh_config setup to automatically connect to shpool sessions and the benefits they've observed, such as native scrollback and terminal notifications.
Despite some remaining issues with shpool, like terminal state restoration and lack of multiplayer support, the author has successfully replaced tmux in their workflow.

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