<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, at 22:00, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div dir="ltr"><div>In my newsfeed today was an article that's kinda related to this discussion:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ssh-tmux-screen-sharing">https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ssh-tmux-screen-sharing</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Entitled "Using SSH and Tmux for screen sharing"<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We've done similar screen sharing with gnu screen previously. Joining a remote RHEL VM to a customer domain was the biggest use case, as we were able to type the commands, and the on-site staff was able to provide their credentials.<br></div><div><br></div><div>With the announcement that gnu screen was being dropped from RHEL8, I installed tmux on my workstation and started adjusting it's config. I managed to get most of the keybindings to match my muscle memory from screen, but still have some functionality that was possible in screen that I haven't solved in tmux.<br></div><div><br></div><div>So far, it seems to be a lot of extra work to migrate for little extra benefit (as a user).<br></div><div><br></div><div>FWIW, RHEL dropping support shouldn't be read as a criticism of screen. RHEL8 dropped *a lot* of hardware[1] and software[2]. I think this is an indication of RHEL support being more targeted than it does about the software they dropped -- they need to support everything they ship for years, so why ship multiple tools when one will do. Unfortunately in this case, tmux is the trendy one.<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index#removed-device-drivers_hardware-enablement">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index#removed-device-drivers_hardware-enablement</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>2. <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index#removed-packages_changes-to-packages">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index#removed-packages_changes-to-packages</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig91988184"><div class="signature">-- <br></div><div class="signature"><b>Chris Irwin</b><br></div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature"><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font">email: </span><a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca"><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font">chris@chrisirwin.ca</span></a><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font"></span><br></div><div class="signature"><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font"> xmpp: </span><a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca"><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font">chris@chrisirwin.ca</span></a><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font"></span><br></div><div class="signature"><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font"> web: </span><a href="https://chrisirwin.ca"><span style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif" class="font">https://chrisirwin.ca</span></a><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>