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Similar projects and alternatives to tmux
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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
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ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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NvChad
Blazing fast Neovim framework providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.
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wezterm
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
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ghostty
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better tmux alternative or higher similarity.
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-16.
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Optimizing My Dev Workflow in 2025
Instead of opening a bunch of terminal tabs or windows, I switched to tmux. It lets me manage multiple sessions in one window, split panes, and run different services side by side. It’s lightweight, keyboard-driven, and fits perfectly with NeoVim.
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Switching from tmux to Zellij
If you've used terminal multiplexer in command line, you know tmux is cool! If you haven't, you really should use something like tmux, especially if you SSH into remote servers often!
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Switching Fully to Neovim
Additionally, I integrate several CLI tools into my work flow, such as lazygit for streamlined Git operations, yazi as a terminal file manager, tmux for session management, and lazydocker for handling Docker containers efficiently.
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Increasing Global Developer Coverage for Open-Source Organizations: with Docker and PostgreSQL
3. Running the App Entirely in Docker (with Persistent Data): For devs who prefer a fully containerized development environment, they can now the backend and database in Docker (my personal favorite method). This approach minimizes dependency conflicts and leverages Docker-specific PostgreSQL tools. To ensure persistent data storage, similar to a locally hosted PostgreSQL database, I configured Docker volumes. With Docker volumes, this enabled both staff developers and contributors to fully containerize the application without needing to re-populate the database with each new container. Additionally, this streamlined my pull request workflow as a maintainer, as I no longer needed to manually populate the database from a forked branch when reviewing complex pull requests locally. Of course, there are caveats to this method, forked pull request tests run on my machine using Docker volumes can alter my local database, but I quickly realized I could navigate this using tmux multiplexers or docker-compose.override.yml files (that is for a future blog post).
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The Motivation Behind Systemd
When systemd broke tmux (which isn't a Linux project, but ported from OpenBSD) and instead of reverting or fixing their own bug, systemd devs went to the OpenBSD folks and asked them to work around the bug that they caused themselves. This is ragebait-level insolence:
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428
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Ghostty 1.0
This. To add some words why this is important:
Given the remote-first container-based world we're heading towards, decoupling UI (terminal emulator) from its state (tmux, code-server) is a great design decision, which I think will ultimately define what the "next generation" of terminal emulators is. Imagine being able to open tabs directly on remote host, reconnect without losing state, etc, all while using native UI (so Cmd+T to open new tab, Cmd+F to search, etc). Productivity game changer, which currently only the iTerm2 users can fully enjoy.
Ptyxis (putting its state in running containers), WezTerm (native handling of ssh sessions) and VSCode's terminal (starting a proprietary code-server binary and connecting to its TCP port) have reached some of this functionality, but in their design they need some out-of-band mechanisms to do their magic, ultimately limiting the scenarios they can handle.
Meanwhile tmux -CC [0] and ht [1] are sending both their control channel and data channel over the opened terminal itself (in-band), making them flexible enough to support any configuration. Something complex like `ssh jumpbox -- ssh prod -- podman exec -it prod /bin/bash -- tmux -CC` should just work.
[0] https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode
[1] https://github.com/andyk/ht
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How to automate the launch of your terminal processes (fzf + tmux + teamocil)
What is tmux?
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Turing Pi 2 Home cluster
This also gave me the chance to learn how to use Tmux. Best tool I've learned in a while.
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Host Telegram Bot on Raspberry Pi 5
To keep it running in the background we can use tmux
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