Saying Goodbye to tmux: A shpool and Window Manager Based Alternative

The author, a long-time tmux user, sought an alternative due to its complexity and annoying issues like color rendering, buffer scrolling, and mouse selection. The article explores the shortcomings of terminal multiplexers and introduces how tools like shpool, combined with window managers (such as ghostty or sway), achieve session persistence and window management, ultimately replacing tmux. While shpool isn't perfect and has minor issues, the author finds its native scrollback, terminal notifications, and titles to be significant advantages. Detailed configuration instructions are provided.