<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra" style>One problem that comes to mind is that screen tries to reopen your terminal when you attach to existing session or run a new one.</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>So if you have one user you log in to a test server (ubuntu? root?) and another user that runs screen session (stack), you won't be able to attach to the session unless you do some dance with access rights (like "chmod a+rw `tty`" or smth).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Another downside of screen is not so good defaults. For example, invisible status bar makes it harder for newcomers to realize that they are in screen already and don't need to reattach to see logs (I had such issues with almost every intern I was mentoring).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Overall for me tmux makes impression of being more robust then screen. This and all other things that make it better than screen (license, for example ;) or free nesting) don't have much impact on Devstack though.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Anita Kuno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anteaya@anteaya.info" target="_blank">anteaya@anteaya.info</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote">
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Actually as a tmux user I really like that devstack uses screen, that<br>
way when I have screen running in tmux, I can decide (since they have<br>
different default key combinations, Control+A for screen and Control+B<br>
for tmux) which utility I am talking to, screen or tmux.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I think if we ever make an effort to switch to tmux, we can use ctrl-A as prefix key so that people won't need to rewire their finger reflexes.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><br><div>Kind regards, Yuriy.</div>
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