Questions tagged [tmux]
tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.
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Write all tmux scrollback to a file
How can I write all the scrollback in a tmux session to a file?
capture-panel can grab the current screen, but not the entire scrollback.
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How do I equally balance tmux(1) split panes?
I'm looking for a behavior that is similar to how vim(1) handles its split windows with ^w =. I know tmux(1) has predefined layouts with ^b Meta[1-5], but this likely does not have the layout that I ...
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Moving tmux pane to window
How do I move an existing pane into another window in tmux when I have multiple windows, and vice versa?
I'm coming from screen, where I can switch to the pane and then switch windows until I get to ...
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How to create a new window on the current directory in tmux?
Is is possible to open a new-window with its working directory set to the one I am currently in. I am using zsh, if it matters.
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Getting 256 colors to work in tmux
I have 256 colors working just fine in konsole,. I thought I'd give tmux a try because, unlike screen, it seems to support vi mode. However I find that the colors of my prompt show up and this is ...
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Copy text from one tmux pane to another (using vim)
I have two files opened in vim, each in one tmux pane. I would like to copy let's say 10 lines from one file to another.
How can I accomplish this not using the mouse's Copy -> Paste ?
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tmux vs. GNU Screen [closed]
Browsing through questions I found about tmux (I normally used GNU Screen). My question is what are pros and cons of each of them. Especially I couldn't find much about tmux.
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How to start tmux with attach if a session exists
If I use
tmux attach
I can attach to a running session but if there is no session running, I only get the error
no sessions
How can I automatically start a new session if there is none running? ...
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Renumbering windows in tmux
I frequently end up with more than ten windows in tmux. Later on, I close some of my older ones. Is there a way to renumber, say window 15, to window 3 (which doesn't exist anymore)? Or to pack them ...
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How can I set my default shell to start up tmux
I would like my default bash shell to go straight into tmux instead of my always having to type tmux every time.
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exit tmux window without quitting the Terminal program
OK I'm new to this. I installed tmux to run a several days experiment. After typing tmux new -s name I got a new window with green banner at the bottom. I compile and run java program. Now I do not ...
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What are other ways to share a tmux session between two users?
I'm looking for a clean and easy way to share a tmux session with another user on the same machine. I've tried the -S socket-path option, but it requires opening up all permissions of the socket-path ...
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Attach to different windows in session
I have a pretty simple tmux session running with two open windows; one of them for local hacking and one of them for work.
What I'd like to do is to simply connect to the hacking window while ...
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How to make tmux count windows starting from 1 instead of 0?
I was able to make GNU Screen start counting windows with the number 1 instead of the default 0 with this code in my .screenrc:
# Get rid of screen 0
bind c screen 1
bind ^c screen 1
bind 0 select 10
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Getting tmux to copy a buffer to the clipboard
I am trying to figure out a decent way to copy what I have in a tmux buffer into my clipboard. I have tried a couple of different things like
bind-key p select-pane -t 2 \; split-window 'xsel -i -b'...
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