{"id":259678,"date":"2026-05-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-the-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:30:16","slug":"this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-the-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-the-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"This tool lets two people type in the same Linux terminal at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time\/\">This tool lets two people type in the same Linux terminal at the same time<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I remotely troubleshoot Linux for people, the process sometimes feels more exhausting than the actual problem. I have had someone share their screen over Discord and, as soon as they zoomed out, the text became blurry. Even with SSH, you still end up describing commands back and forth, so it doesn&#8217;t completely solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I tried tmate and found its approach surprisingly fluid. It wasn&#8217;t screen sharing; rather, it created a live terminal session that allowed two people to join simultaneously. Both can type commands, edit files, and view the output instantly. It&#8217;s a troubleshooting tool that feels like collaborative editing for the terminal.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"using-a-shared-terminal-changes-how-troubleshooting-feels\">\n                        Using a shared terminal changes how troubleshooting feels<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"switch-from-explaining-commands-to-solving-the-problem-together\">\n            Switch from explaining commands to solving the problem together<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Afam Onyimadu \/ MUO<\/p>\n<p> The first time you log in, it may feel strange: a second cursor moving beside yours, controlling and interacting with the same terminal. This experience is more like what you expect from Google Docs than a remote desktop tool.<\/p>\n<p>However, it made a difference. In the past, I would&#8217;ve had to translate actions into instructions while troubleshooting remotely: I would explain what files to open, the commands to run, paste outputs, etc., spending most of the session telling the person what to do rather than fixing the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I understood the advantages of tmate when I helped a friend fix a broken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tool lets two people type in the same Linux terminal at the same time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/using-tmate-on-linux.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-259678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259680,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259678\/revisions\/259680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}