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Using tmux for persistent ssh connections

Tmux allows you to keep a shell session active when closing your ssh connection. So, when you close your laptop to change a room, you don’t lose the current state of your command line tools. It has many more useful features. However, you need to remember the login node you used to start tmux, and X11 applications (e.g. ncview) will not survive the disconnect. emacs will survive in command line mode (module load emacs ; emacs -nw).

The following examples will assume that you have prescribed your user name and allowed (trusted) X11 forwarding for dkrz.de machines in your ~/.ssh/config

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