Tux Machines

2 Tools for Linux Terminal Sharing

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 10, 2022

At times, you wish you could explain what you are seeing on the screen of your Linux system to someone else. Although you could exchange screenshots, being able to interact would be so much better; thus, the basis for Linux terminal sharing.

Several tools let you share a screen, including tmate, tmux, screen, teleconsole, tty-share, ttyd, named pipe/FIFO, WebTTY, and byobu, to name a few.

In this article, I cover what are generally considered the most common tools: screen and tmux.

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