Personally, I will often suspend and background a task, since it’s faster to use type the short commands (usually ^Z and fg when done) all in the terminal, rather than require use of the mouse (or possibly using other different keyboard commands) to open a new terminal window, do your task, and close the window.
I will still sometimes reflexively use ^Z/fg even when working in tmux, especially if what I need to do is a prerequisite to the backgrounded task getting done - “jobs” output becomes my working “stack”.
On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, at 7:03 PM, Noel Hunt wrote:
> I still like to use ^Z to suspend a running program, even when I use
> X11.
Since it would appear that that is totally unnecessary in a
window system, as Doug pointed out, one has to ask why?