Comments on Sharing Linux Terminal Sessions With Tmux and Screen

Tmux and GNU Screen are well-known utilities which allow multiplexing of virtual consoles. Using either, it is possible to start a session, detach, move to a different machine and resume the session in uninterrupted progress. It's also possible to use these tools to share a single session between more than one user at the same time.

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By: Anonymous

It would be easier to use Termbeamer (see termbeamer.com).

By: sai

Nice artical.

Can this be extended between two machines running tmux ?

By: nobodyzxc

great tutorial.

I found that it's not necessary to create a new group for two different users(the two have no same group)?

just  "chmod 777 /tmp/shareds".

However, I don't know if it only works on my machine.

By: nobodyelse

No need to create groups, both users are probably in 'users' group anyhow.  Tmux will create the first session with 0770 permissions when -S is given, so the second user can simply connect to it.

By: rufwoof

Nice article. Thanks. tmux is great for leaving running in the background. I run one tmux inside another https://i.postimg.cc/mgn0D0Hh/ss.png and have my main/local tmux set to use the backtick as the prefix key, and I have keybindings of F11 for a new tmux window, F12 to step to the next window (I tend not to use tmux panes). So that doesn't conflict with a remote ssh servers tmux conventional key bindings (ctrl-b prefix ...etc.).

Attached image looks busy, but what I like/used to. Other desktops (Linux) have maximised Firefox with multiple tabs, and on another desktop I have audacious for music purposes.