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Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

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414 points st_goliath | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.334s | source
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sundarurfriend ◴[13 May 25 15:32 UTC] No.43974063[source]▶
Zellij is a really nice, modern alternative to screen and tmux, and they've done a great job at having good defaults as well as making the UI easily discoverable. I'd highly recommend it to anyone else who felt dubious about the benefit-to-effort ratio of terminal multiplexers.

https://zellij.dev https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij

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collinvandyck76 ◴[13 May 25 15:39 UTC] No.43974157[source]▶
I gave it a shot a couple years ago -- pretty slick. But the latency was noticeable compared to tmux, which I remain using today. I admit that I'm kind of sensitive to it, as at the time I was already on a latent connection.
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kstrauser ◴[13 May 25 17:01 UTC] No.43975118[source]▶
I personally haven't noticed that, but we all have different sensitivity levels to such things. Have you tried it more recently? A couple years ago is ancient in its lifespan. I'd be curious to see if it still feels sluggish to you.

(Not a dev, just another end user.)

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collinvandyck76 ◴[13 May 25 17:42 UTC] No.43975603[source]▶
No, haven't tried recently, but will make a note to do so. Agree that a couple of years is an eternity :)
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1. kstrauser ◴[13 May 25 19:11 UTC] No.43976500[source]▶
Right on. I'd love to hear back about that.

It could also be in my case that I use it so little that some latency is tolerable. I don't develop interactively in zellij or tmux. I mainly keep some logs tailing, and DB consoles open, etc, and I don't check them super often.