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tmux vs. screen

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026279878 views
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I'm about to get back into using GNU Screen, but I have been hearing people occasionally mention tmux as a better alternative. Does it really offer an alternative to all the features Screen offers, such as activity monitoring in different windows, etc.? What are the pros and cons of each?

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Some of the (major) reasons I prefer over : Status bar is much easier to use. You can easily set up different text/styles for current window, windows with activity, etc. and you can put things on the left and right of the status bar, including shell commands that can be run at a specified interval (default 15s). Almost any command you can run inside can be run from a shell with . This makes it very easily scriptable, as well as making it easy to do complex commands. Much more accurate automatic…

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