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    A terminal multiple window manager

    Feb 09, 2021 4 minutes

    Terminal emulators and a text environment are quite different. For one, you don’t have the luxury of using a mouse on a text environment, and you can’t run launch multiple windows. Try one of your virtual terminals by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F1. The subject of this tutorial is Twin, which enables you to launch multiple windows in a text environment.

    Twin (Textmode WINdow environment) is a window environment with mouse support and features a window manager and terminal emulator. It’s different from tmux, which enables you to split your terminal into different panes and perform a variety of different tasks in each. In a nutshell, Twin is no different than having multiple windows open simultaneously on a graphical desktop environment.

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