I started using Linux back in the 90’s, when GNOME didn’t exist yet, and KDE wasn’t as widely known as it is today.

Window manager discussions tend to trigger a certain interest in me. That search led me, among other things, to “ ditching tmux” thread on HackerNews, where in the comments a few people were talking about i3 tiling window manager. I thought, let me find something that people who used tmux have moved on to. Terminology is another option from a choice of many. I use Terminator, which supports both horizontal and vertical screen split. This is still useful, but can be done by a number of different tools these days.

Terminal multiplexer, where you can split your terminal screen into a number of panels and work with each one like it’s a separate terminal.

When I do need this functionality, I use screen, which is more often installed on the machines that I work with. With simpler workloads and reliable Internet connection, this became less useful to me.

Persistent sessions, where you can work on a remote machine, detach your terminal, disconnect from the machine entirely, and then, at some point later, connect again and continue from where you left off.

The two most useful features of tmux are: I used it for a while, but at some point, it faded away from my daily routine. One of the things that came (again) on my radar was terminal multiplexer tmux. The fragmentation and constant context switching affected my productivity, so I briefly revisited my toolbox setup, in hopes to find something that I didn’t know about, forgot about, or have greatly underutilized. In the last few days my attention was unfairly distributed between a whole lot of tasks.

2008: Can rapid development become ultra-rapid development?.

2009: A better world with multiple inboxes in Gmail.

2010: PHP variables, strings, and curly braces.

2014: gitsh – an interactive shell for git.

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I3 desktop manager