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More lightweight alternative to tmux? (feddit.nu)
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I need to be able to launch a program in the background, make it persist after the "parent" terminal closes and be able to access its stdin/stdout from another terminal. I don't care about multiplexing.

I've been using tmux for this but I don't like how it hijacks my mouse and that i'm not able to use my terminal's search feature and have to use what tmux tui provides instead. In other words, programs launched directly in the terminal feel more comfortable to work with than when they are launched inside tmux.

I feel the ideal program should behave much simpler. Like e.g. on attach it should clear the screen, print the stdout buffer it accumulated and give me stdin prompt, that's it.

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[-] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

You have a bunch of answers including one you chose, but you can always rebind the tmux key to something compatible with your terminals search and use [key] - d to disconnect from your tmux session then invoke it with tmux attach-session to get back into your session.

on attach it should clear the screen, print the stdout buffer it accumulated and give me stdin prompt, that’s it

The last part of the above, disconnecting from tmux and reattaching would do what you described. That may be useful if you need to work with tmux.

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