Questions tagged [tmux]
tmux is terminal multiplexer software, allowing users to work with terminals using multiple windows and panes, which can be created, removed, attached, and reattached as needed.
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How do I scroll in tmux?
How do I scroll with either the keyboard or mouse? The tmux man page indicates one must enter copy-mode to scroll. Is there a way to quickly scroll without manually entering copy-mode?
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How do I reorder tmux windows?
In screen, I can just type C-a :number 0 to move a window to the top of the window list and push all the other windows down one. What's the equivalent command sequence for tmux? I looked at the man ...
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How do I rename a session in tmux?
When I first started using tmux, I didn't give my first session a name. Then, as I started creating different sessions for different tasks (work, play, etc), I started naming my sessions.
Now I have ...
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Restore tmux session after reboot
Is there any way to save a tmux session? In other words, if I reboot the computer, will I always lose the sessions?
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Scroll shell output with mouse in tmux
Mouse scrolling doesn't work in tmux the way it works when I run shell without tmux (in Gnome Terminal). It seems tmux sends mouse scroll events as if I pressed Up/Down keys. But I want it to scroll ...
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How does one swap two panes in Tmux?
I have two panes in horizontal split. I'd like to have the pane currently on the right to be on the left in the window. I'm not talking about moving the focus (Ctrl+B o). How do I achieve this?
'left ...
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tmux vs. screen
I'm about to get back into using GNU Screen, but I have been hearing people occasionally mention tmux as a better alternative. Does it really offer an alternative to all the features Screen offers, ...
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How can I search within the output buffer of a tmux shell?
I can't get this to work. How can I search the buffer of a tmux shell?
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How to convert 2 horizontal panes to vertical panes in tmux?
After doing join-pane on 2 windows, you have 2 horizontal panes. How do I rearrange the panes to be vertical panes instead?
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"Maximizing" a pane in tmux
Sometimes it would be very useful to maximize a pane in tmux and then restore it to it's previous size.
I've been reading the manual and I can't find a way. What I've come up with is that I could ...
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Move pane to a new window in tmux
I know that it's possible in tmux to join a window as a pane, but is it possible to move a pane to it's own window (tab)? I tried searching it up the man page but couldn't find it. I guess it is ...
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How can I make tmux use my default shell?
On a new setup, tmux is using bash instead of my default (zsh).
How can I force it to use zsh?
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How to detach a tmux session that itself already in a tmux?
I've opened a tmux session on my local machine, and ssh'd into the remote machine. After this, I typed tmux attach on the remote machine, then I got a remote tmux session on my local tmux session.
Now ...
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How to close a tmux session
I am using tmux to manage multiple terminal windows. Currently I have 2 windows open with multiple panes.
I know that I have to use the prefix (for me it is ctrl+a) to enter commands.
How can I ...
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How does the tmux color palette work?
I'm trying to set something to gray, but can't figure out how. The only bit of info in the man page about colors I can find is:
message-bg colour
Set status line message background colour, where ...
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Uppercase "M" at the right of window name in tmux
For some reason, occasionally, an uppercase M appears at the right side of the window name, so the window name looks like this:
1:bash*M
I'm pretty sure is because I'm pressing some combination that ...
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vim freezes inside tmux
I’m using split panes in tmux – one being vim, the other being a shell.
Sometimes, around once a day, vim freezes. I can move between panes, perform any tmux commands, just vim doesn’t react to ...
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Byobu vs. GNU Screen vs. tmux — usefulness and transferability of skills [closed]
So far I have used Konsole to manage multiple shell sessions but I haven't tried Byobu, GNU Screen, and tmux, which offer better support for multiple shells. They all share one main feature, which is ...
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tmux exits with [exited] on mac os x
I just installed tmux (a terminal multiplexer) with homebrew. When I try to run it, it always exits with [exited] Nothing shows up.
When I try to run tmux list-session I get an error:
failed to ...
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What's the least conflicting prefix/escape sequence for screen or tmux?
Screen goes with Ctrl+A. tmux on the other hand—as developed within screen—uses Ctrl+B. Both keystrokes, however, are also used in editors, shells, etc. Thus choosing either one degrades ...
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tmux disregarding the configuration file
I just installed tmux on Ubuntu 10.04 and tried to remap the prefix key to C-a by creating the file ~/.tmux.conf with these lines:
set-option -g prefix C-a
unbind-key C-b
When starting tmux, both ...
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Selecting text in Tmux copy mode
I run Tmux in Vi mode. Vi-like navigation in copy mode works fine. However, I can't select any text. Neither v nor V switches to Vi-like text selecting mode.
What am I missing?
By the way, is it ...
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How can I make ctrl+left/right keys to move by whole word in tmux?
In both zsh and bash, Ctrl+arrows allows me to move the position I'm typing at by whole word, but this does not work in tmux, which is a problem as I'm currently launching it automatically every time ...
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256 color support for vim background in tmux
while using vim within tmux I can see that 256 color support is enabled. with $tput colors
However changing the colorscheme in vim while in tmux will change the colorscheme on a per line basis but ...
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How to quickly switch to n.10+ windows in tmux?
Tmux by default comes with the following keybinding to quickly switch between windows numbered 0 to 9:
C-b + 0-9
With a couple of dozen different project folders, a few ssh sessions and other ...
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On tmux, what is the difference between "bind" and "bind-key"?
On .tmux.conf, what is the difference between "bind" and "bind-key"?
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How to switch between two latest windows in tmux?
GNU Screen has Ctrl-a,Ctrl-a to switch between the two latest windows.
How to do it in tmux?
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Adjusting screen split pane sizes in tmux
I'd like to resize the panes so I can expand / compress the pane sizes (up / down / left / right etc) ..
Any way to get this done?
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Run or send a command to a tmux pane in a running tmux session
I want to write a shell script which will attach to a named tmux session, select a window (or pane) in that session and run a command in that selected window (or pane).
How do I do this from a bash ...
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Disable the status bar in tmux?
I want to disable the default status bar on tmux. I prefer to treat screen/tmux as persistant session managers, and deprecate the menu/window stuff in favor of my system window manager. I suspect Tmux ...
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Slight delay when switching modes in vim using tmux or screen
Switching to and from insert mode in Vim is no longer instantaneous since I use tmux. After pressing Esc in insert mode, it takes a noticeable amount of time to actually get out of insert mode. After ...
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Move a tmux pane to another session
Short of doing this, is it possible to move a running command in a pane to another tmux session?
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Transfer current command to a detachable session (tmux/screen)
I'm currently running a backup and it now needs to be transferred to detachable one like on tmux or screen. Is there a way to do this when the command is currently running?
I can send the command the ...
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Attach a tmux session to a remote machine
I am using tmux on my local machine and usually have several sessions simultaneously.
What I usually do is I have a session with different windows to work locally and the other sessions in which I ...
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Is it possible to search tmux scrollback history? [duplicate]
I'm starting to use tmux, and I already love it. But if I could search through scrollback history it would be even better (e.g. like in iTerm2). Is there a way to do it as of now?
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tmux copy mode - select text block
I'm using tmux with vi keys, and copy/paste works fine as long as you're selecting one line of text, or if you have only one window. When I want to select a block of text (multiple lines, but not full ...
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How to turn down the timeout between prefix key and command key in tmux?
My ~/.tmux.conf:
set -g prefix C-a
unbind C-b
bind C-a send-prefix
bind-key o split-window -v
bind-key e split-window -h
bind-key w kill-pane
(to make the command keys same as GNOME Teminator)
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Unable to use pbcopy while in tmux session
Running tmux 1.4 installed from ports on snow-leopard I am unable to use the built in OSX pbcopy command.
Outside of tmux:
> echo "abc" | pbcopy
> echo $(pbpaste) # or using ^v
abc
But inside ...
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How do I know current tmux session name, by running tmux command
I'm writing a script. I really want to know this. I hope tmux executable can tell me this.
I find
tmux rename <newname>
can rename current session. But I can't find a command to fetch its ...
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How to get shift+arrows and ctrl+arrows working in Vim in tmux?
This is all in iTerm2 on OS X.
I used to have
export TERM='xterm-256color'
in my .bashrc. This meant Vim in tmux did use 256 colors.
And once I added
set -g xterm-keys on
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Detach the *other* tmux client(s)
I use tmux when working on my desktop, and then if I want to work outside on my laptop I ssh over to the desktop and attach to the same session. Then when I close my laptop and go back inside, the ...
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Resizing pane is not working for tmux on mac?
After searching through, I figured ctrl+b ( PREFIX ) then ctrl + arrow should resize the current pane. But it is not working. Am I missing anything ?
Thanks.
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Binding a command in tmux without using the prefix key
Is it possible to bind a tmux command to a key combination and use it directly without first pressing the prefix?
I find C-b + n too cumbersome to switch panes, so I was wondering whether I could ...
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Can't resize vim splits inside tmux
Everything is working fine outside of tmux. But in tmux I can't resize vim splits with the mouse.
I have set mouse=a in my .vimrc. Is there a solution for this?
.tmux.conf:
$ cat ~/.tmux.conf
set-...
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Use terminal scrollbar with tmux
I know how to scroll in tmux using the keyboard, but I noticed that it looks like there's a way to use the terminal scrollbar with GNU Screen. Can this be done with tmux?
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How to auto resize panes in tmux?
In Vim, with
C-W =
the windows are auto resized to the same height.
In tmux, with
:resize-pane -U 10
I can increment the height of tmux pane in 10.
How I can auto resize the panes to the same ...
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tmux configuration conditional to OS
There's some lines of my tmux.conf which I'd like executed only if my OS is Mac. However, I'd like to use my tmux.conf on multiple different operating systems. How can I make a command conditional to ...
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tmux Ctrl+B not working
Holding Ctrl and B followed by another command key
usually gives me nothing.
I have no .conf file so I'm not overwriting it.
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How to delete a detached tmux session?
I detached myself from a tmux session:
$ tmux ls
0: 1 windows (created Thu Aug 22 22:52:17 2013) [218x59]
Is there anyway I can simply delete it now that I am detached from it?
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Binding a tmux key to multiple commands
I launch multipane tmux window to monitor several server parameters.
With Ctrl-S I can open a new window with another monitor command.
Now I want to bind Ctrl-Q to open another multipane window with ...
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