| ▲ | esseph 2 days ago | |||||||
If screen crashes you lose the sessions, Tmux maintains state. Screen does not have UTF8 support, tmux does. Otherwise just a bunch of more sane original defaults in tmux to make things much familiar. In 2026 if given a choice between screen and tmux to use/learn, most are going to go with tmux. | ||||||||
| ▲ | teddyh 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> Screen does not have UTF8 support, tmux does. “‘-U’ Run screen in UTF-8 mode. This option tells screen that your terminal sends and understands UTF-8 encoded characters. It also sets the default encoding for new windows to ‘utf8’.” — <https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Invok...> “Command: defutf8 state (none) Same as the ‘utf8’ command except that the default setting for new windows is changed. Initial setting is on if screen was started with ‘-U’, otherwise off.” — <https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Chara...> | ||||||||
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