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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because sometimes (or always) you're using the terminal multiplexer on a remote machine over ssh with no graphical session

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The tiling window manager should handle that too, right? I suppose you'd have to re-ssh, and you wouldn't land in the same directory by default, which adds extra friction.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Mainly tmuxor screen keep sessions alive on the remote server, so processes don't get killed when I disconnect.