tmux ... ?

[Rick Hornsby]

This seems like a dumb question ... for all my many years of Linux, I've never really used screen or tmux, but I understand the general idea and I think I'm going to start.  Tired of being in the middle of a long operation only to have the wireless drop, kicking me off the VPN and thus the server I was working on.

I've been looking over the tmux man page, and found a tutorial that covers some of the basics.  It seems like tmux requires a server-side piece installed to function properly (this makes sense, just wanted to confirm).

I'm not entirely sure I understand what the iTerm tmux integration is?  I see the options in the preferences.  Does iTerm look for a tmux session when you ssh into a host, and automatically restore the session?

How are others leveraging the integration?

thanks!

[George Nachman]

Hi Rick,
Your understanding of how tmux works is correct; you do need to run
tmux on the server side. The integration hides tmux's UI in favor of
using iTerm2's native UI.
There's more info here:
https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration

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[Chas. Owens]

Yes, tmux is run remotely (both the client and the server).  The tmux integration is a new thing that lets you talk to a remote (or local) tmux server with iTerm.  The only benefit I can see is that you get a window based paradigm instead of a terminal based paradigm.  This means you can leverage what you already know about how to drive iTerm without having to learn all of the tmux commands (like "ctrl-b c" to create a new window).