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by stragies 2253 days ago
Thank you for replying!

I described my workflow, because since I discovered automatically grouped sessions on TMUX, I'd never want to use a terminal multiplexer without that, or comparable functionality.

What I do:

* Open new terminal with a hot-key

* This terminal automatically joins my local (default) session group

* All windows in this session group are now available

* Most windows connect to remote TMUXs

* With CTRL+ 4 keypresses I can navigate to any preexisting window/session, or create a new one locally (or on a remote host)

* After using the window, either i close the terminal, and/or the window, depending on if i want to keep this one.

* On the remote end, people can join my sessions, and can independently of me navigate in the remote window space.

* if I need to concurrently see two (probably different) windows of my local/remote window grid, I just open/auto-attach another terminal.

* the above makes it easy to "place another live tmux view" on a screen different than my main screen, for presentation, or teaching purposes.

Everybody (who previously used tmux in non-grouped mode) I've shown/explained this setup to, has setup their environment just like it afterwards.

Thanks for the other info too :)