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No, they're crazy. I already have a window manager I like; I don't need my terminal to implement their own half-assed one, and my multiplexer (running on the terminal) to implement their own half-assed one, and my editor (running on the multiplexer on the terminal) to implement their own half-assed one.

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So don't use tmux then. The entire reason most people use something like tmux is because they want a window manager in their terminal.

This is one of the great joys of FOSS, if you don't like a terminal-based utility then you can bet there's a dozen other options available for you to use.

  > No, they're crazy. I already have a window manager I like; I don't need my 
  > terminal to implement their own half-assed one,

Basically agree, though note that ssh and dtach and similar tools need to create pty's on the server and client ends because they implement essentially an adapter between a tty and a byte stream.

If you really want crazy, run `xterm -ti 340`, then run run an X server from the xserver-sixel repository <https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL> in it. Now y ou can run as many terminal emulators, complete with real truetype fonts and all the colors you could want, inside the one terminal. Use a tiling window manager and you’ll be able to avoid using tmux entirely.

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