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Now that you know how to use tmux to share your screen with others, you can use it for remote training, impromptu collaboration on open source projects, or even presentations.

In addition, you could use this technique to fire up a tmux session on one of your production servers, load up monitoring tools or consoles, and then detach from it, leaving those tools running in the background. Then you simply connect to your machine, reattach to the session, and everything is back where you left it. I do something similar with my development environment. I set up tmux on a VPS, which lets me use nothing more than an iPad, an SSH client, and a Bluetooth keyboard to hack on code when I’m away from home. It even works brilliantly over the ...

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