GNU Screen Alternatives

GNU Screen is described as 'Enables full-screen terminal session multiplexing, independent windows for processes, VT100 emulation, scrollback, copy-paste, and detachable sessions' and is a popular app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to GNU Screen for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Rust, Windows and Nix Package Manager apps. The best GNU Screen alternative is tmux, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU Screen are Herdr, byobu, Zellij and RMUX.

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  1. Zterm icon
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    ZTerm is a terminal emulation program for the Macintosh. In its day, many people used it to connect to Bulletin Board Systems and download files. Now we have the internet. Its still a useful utility for those systems that only offer dialup connections and for connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. diss icon
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    A dtach-like program / crate in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
     
  3. boo icon
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    A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (libghostty-vt), written in Zig.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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