 Terminal multiplexers are CLI desktop environments

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Terminal multiplexers are CLI desktop environments by

Ciro Santilli 35  Updated 2025-04-05  +Created 1970-01-01

If we didn't have GUIs, terminal multiplexers would be our desktop environments. E.g. they handle stuff like:

window switching
copy pasting across windows
screen locking
clock on the status bar (same one that holds tabs)

It is a thing of beauty.

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