Terminal Multiplexer for Microsoft Windows - Installers for GNU Screen or tmux

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Kamaal picture Kamaal · Mar 29, 2011 · Viewed 136.4k times · Source

I am looking for a terminal multiplexer for Microsoft Windows. I was unable to locate the installers for Microsoft Windows for both tmux and GNU Screen.

Currently I'm using Putty to connect to my Linux machine from from Windows Machine. Can somebody please suggest how to get GNU Screen or tmux working on Windows Platform.

Are there any other good alternatives to above options.

Answer

dgo picture dgo · Mar 3, 2014

Look. This is way old, but on the off chance that someone from Google finds this, absolutely the best solution to this - (and it is AWESOME) - is to use ConEmu (or a package that includes and is built on top of ConEmu called cmder) and then either use plink or putty itself to connect to a specific machine, or, even better, set up a development environment as a local VM using Vagrant.

This is the only way I can ever see myself developing from a Windows box again.

I am confident enough to say that every other answer - while not necessarily bad answers - offer garbage solutions compared to this.

Update: As Of 1/8/2020 not all other solutions are garbage - Windows Terminal is getting there and WSL exists.

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