Tmux (terminal multiplexer)

About

Tmux ¹⁾ stands for and is a: terminal multiplexer.

The documentation is at:

• the man page ²⁾
• or the wiki

Check the Getting-Started guide

Features

• It enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen.
• tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

You get then the following functionalities

• Protect running programs on a remote server from connection drops by running them inside tmux.
• Allow programs running on a remote server to be accessed from multiple different local computers.
• Work with multiple programs and shells together in one terminal, a bit like a window manager (You can switch by name)

ie you can close the Xterm and come back.