Screen vs. Tmux
Screen and Tmux both are the terminal multiplexers that have been fabricated for the Unix-like platforms. Although they are in common in many aspects but as well differ from each other on basis of many features. They are equally capable for managing multiple shell instances simultaneously within a single session. Both can offer shared sessions for more than one users connecting at the same time. Screen is GPL based license as a GNU project while Tmux is distributed on the terms of the BSD license. GNU Screen has been around for a longer time as compare to the Tmux. GNU Screen is more-likely to be available on a system to be used. Screen has the feature of “Zmodem Transfer” while Tmux lacks this feature of Zmodem Transfer. GNU Screen offers user to may connect to serial devise (scree-r/dev/ttyS0115200) while this connectivity is not supported by Tmux.
Key Differences
Screen is GPL based license as a GNU project while Tmux is distributed on the terms of the BSD license.
Tmux offer the option to limit the window size over Screen.
Janet White
Jan 27, 2016
Screen has the feature of “Zmodem Transfer” while Tmux lacks this feature of Zmodem Transfer.
Feature of “Line-Wrapping” is offered by the GNU Screen for toggling long line wrapping by simply Ctrl+a r. While Tmux does not support this feature of “Line Wrapping”.
The feature of Client / Server System is only supported by the Tmux for auto start of server instantly when first Tmux session is created. But this feature is not supported by Client / Server System.
Janet White
Jan 27, 2016
Tmux supports the feature of “Synchronize-Panes” in which duplicate input to any of the pane to all other panes in the same window using the command “ctrl-b :set-window-option synchronize-panes on|off”. GNU Screen also support this feature but using different command i.e. :”at # stuff "command".
Samantha Walker
Jan 27, 2016
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GNU Screen offers user to may connect to serial devise (scree-r/dev/ttyS0115200) while this connectivity is not supported by Tmux.
Janet White
Jan 27, 2016
GNU Screen is more-likely to be available on a system to be used.
Samantha Walker
Jan 27, 2016
When multiple terminals are attached to single session, In Screen each attached terminal view is independent of the other while In Tmux all attached terminals see the same thing.
Harlon Moss
Jan 27, 2016
GNU Screen has been around for a longer time as compare to the Tmux.
In Tmux the frames can be split in both horizontally as well as vertically while on the other hand GNU Screen can only split frames horizontally.
Samantha Walker
Jan 27, 2016
Window-splitting is far flexible in Tmux as compare to Screen.
Janet White
Jan 27, 2016
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As compare to Screen, Tmux is quite easily scriptable from the shell.
Screen offers wider platform support e.g. IRIX and HP-UX while Tmux omits this feature.
Harlon Moss
Jan 27, 2016
Screen and Tmux Definitions
Screen
A movable device, especially a framed construction such as a room divider or a decorative panel, designed to divide, conceal, or protect.
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One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide
Security guards formed a screen around the president. A screen of evergreens afforded privacy from our neighbors.
Screen
A surface, as on a smartphone, television, or computer monitor, on which one can read and view electronically displayed information and images.
Screen
A surface on which text and images are projected for display.
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Screen
The medium in which movies are shown
A star of stage and screen.
Screen
A coarse sieve used for sifting out fine particles, as of sand, gravel, or coal.
Screen
A system for preliminary appraisal and selection of personnel as to their suitability for particular jobs.
Screen
A window or door insertion of framed wire or plastic mesh used to keep out insects and permit air flow.
Screen
A body of troops or ships sent in advance of or surrounding a larger body to protect or warn of attack.
Screen
(Sports) A block, set with the body, that impedes the vision or movement of an opponent.
Screen
(Football) A screen pass.
Screen
To show or project (a movie, for example) on a screen.
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To conceal from view with a screen or something that acts like a screen
"Only a narrow line of brush and saplings screened the broad vista of the marsh" (David M. Carroll).
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To protect, guard, or shield
"This rose is screened from the wind with burlap" (Anne Raver).
Screen
To provide with a screen or screens
Screen a porch.
Screen
To separate or sift out (fine particles of sand, for example) by means of a sieve or screen.
Screen
To sort through and eliminate unwanted examples of (something)
A filter that screens email, preventing spam from reaching the inbox.
Screen
To examine (a job applicant, for example) systematically in order to determine suitability.
Screen
To test or evaluate (a student) to determine placement in an educational system or to identify specific learning needs.
Screen
To test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
Screen blood.
Screen a patient.
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To subject to genetic screening.
Screen
To block the vision or movement of (an opponent) with the body.
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To obscure an opponent's view of (a shot) by positioning oneself between the opponent and the shooter.
Screen
A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
A fire screen
Screen
A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.
Screen
A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
Screen
(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
Jones caught the foul up against the screen.
Screen
(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
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(by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
A drug screen, a genetic screen
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(genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
Screen
Various forms or formats of information display
Screen
The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
Screen
The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
Screen
One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
Screen
(computer) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
After you turn on the computer, the login screen appears.
Screen
(figurative) A disguise; concealment.
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Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player
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(American football) screen pass
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(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
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(cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
Screen
(nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
Screen
(architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
Screen
A large scarf.
Screen
To filter by passing through a screen.
Mary screened the beans to remove the clumps of gravel.
Screen
To shelter or conceal.
Screen
To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
The news report was screened because it accused the politician of wrongdoing.
Screen
To present publicly (on the screen).
The news report will be screened at 11:00 tonight.
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To fit with a screen.
We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.
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(medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
Screen
(molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
Screen
(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
Screen
To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
Screen
Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
Your leavy screens throw down.
Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.
Screen
A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
Screen
A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
Screen
A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
Screen
An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.
Screen
A netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects.
Screen
The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed. The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays.
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The motion-picture industry; motion pictures.
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To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high commands.
Screen
To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
Screen
To examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose.
Screen
A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
Screen
Something that keeps things out or hinders sight;
They had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
Screen
Display on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube on which is electronically created
Screen
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
They crouched behind the screen
Under cover of darkness
Screen
Protective covering consisting of a metallic netting mounted in a frame and covering windows or doors (especially for protection against insects)
Screen
A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
Screen
A door that is a screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open door;
He heard the screen slam as she left
Screen
Partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
Screen
Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
Screen the blood for the HIV virus
Screen
Examine methodically;
Screen the suitcases
Screen
Examine in order to test suitability;
Screen these samples
Screen the job applicants
Screen
Project onto a screen for viewing;
Screen a film
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Prevent from entering;
Block out the strong sunlight
Screen
Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
Screen
Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
What is Screen?
Screen is the terminal multiplexer fabricated for th Unix-like platforms. It can handle multiple shell instances or “windows” at the same time within a single session. Screen is GPL based license as a GNU project. It offers user to may connect to serial devise (scree-r/dev/ttyS0115200). It is more-likely to be available on a system to be used. Web searches for screen are comparatively difficult as it is used for many different purposes by the word.
What is Tmux?
Tmux is the terminal multiplexer fabricated for th Unix-like platforms. It can handle multiple shell instances or “windows” at the same time within a single session. Tmux is distributed on the terms of the BSD license. It supports the feature of “Synchronize-Panes” in which duplicate input to any of the pane to all other panes in the same window using the command “ctrl-b :set-window-option synchronize-panes on|off” . Window-splitting is far flexible in Tmux. The feature of Client / Server System is only supported by the Tmux for auto start of server instantly when first Tmux session is created. It is quite lightweight and comparatively fast design for terminal multiplexing.
