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Questions tagged [terminal-multiplexer]

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How to make screen bigger in byobu

My new server install looks odd: is there anyway to resize it to use the whole terminal window?
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Move a program started in GNU screen out to another terminal

I want to terminate an instance of GNU screen whilst preserving the process running inside it. So I opened my regular terminal emulator program and executed screen. Then I used that instance of screen to execute ./script_x.sh. Now, for whatever…
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What are the benefits using terminal multiplexer

I am using terminal, vim, mutt, etc daily. I use windows, tabs and panes. Now I came to know about Tmux, terminal-multiplexer. But I am not quite sure why I need to use it. I already using windows and panes which Tmux is talking about. Can anyone…
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Several byobu commands don't seem to work at all

In a (possibly misguided) attempt to make my ancient netbook (Thinkpad S10e) as fast as possible, I installed a minimal setup of SparkyLinux on it, without an X server. I want to use byobu as a multiplexer, since it seems to be the most…
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Run 8 commands in parallel in equalized tmux panes

I have a monitoring utility that consists of 8 individual utilities, to monitor multiple aspects of a system. All of them kind of work like htop, in that they rewrite the screen periodically instead of exiting after they are run. In order to make my…
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TMUX - how to select some panes and sync them

I am looking for a way to sync some of the selected pane in tmux. Second option that I am looking for is how to create a few groups of panes and then SYNC them. Is it possible in tmux?? I know that this feature is in Terminator multiplexer And is…
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How to check which (if any) multiplexer sessions have processes/commands still running

I operate on a shared linux server. It is common practice for team members to open up a few tmux sessions and run some long running commands and then disconnect their ssh session. Eventually the processes they kick off finish, but they may not…
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