zmx: Terminal Session Persistence Tool for Maintaining Processes Across Disconnections
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Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
zmx is a terminal session persistence tool that allows users to maintain terminal sessions across disconnections, similar to tmux but with a different approach. The tool provides session persistence without visual indicators in the terminal, instead offering an environment variable (ZMX_SESSION) that users can check in their shell prompts to display session status. The article covers installation methods, usage examples, and configuration for various shells including fish, bash, and zsh.
Key quotes
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When you attach to a zmx session, we don't provide any indication that you are inside zmx. We do provide an environment variable ZMX_SESSION which contains the session name.
We recommend checking for that env var inside your prompt and displaying some indication there.
You might not need tmux
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