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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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ESC key causes a small delay in terminal due to its Alt+ behavior
My terminal setup is gnome-terminal + tmux + zsh with vi bindings.
In applications like vim or even in the zsh's command line vi editing mode, I need to frequently hit the ESC key but there is a ...
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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 do I highlight a search result in tmux?
When I search a terminal window in tmux, it sets the cursor the keyword search, but doesn't highlight the matching word. Screen used to do this, and it was much easier to visually find a match.
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Tmux not scaling to fill the window [closed]
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Tmux viewport caused by multiple concurrent sessions
I have a weird issue where tmux isn't scaling to fill the window it's in:
I haven't had this issue before, is ...
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Convert gnu screen status line to tmux status line
I am using the following screen status line, configured in my screenrc:
I configured it using the following line:
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= ...
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In Openbox, is it possible to execute a command in a matching window, or open a new one if no match exists?
Essentially, I'm looking for a way to keep one terminal open running tmux, and open new windows inside of the session rather than spawning new terminals.
On pushing a key sequence, I'd like to open a ...
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Using Ctrl+B in less within tmux
I use the Ctrl+B command prefix in tmux, however this clashes with Ctrl+B in less, which is used for scrolling up a file.
How can I get this to work? Do I have to set a different command prefix in ...
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Prevent tmux from starting up on SSH
I would like tmux to create a new-window when I ssh onto a machine from an existing tmux session. However, I do not want a tmux session started on the new machine!
I have the following in my .bashrc, ...
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Prevent pane/window from closing when command completes - tmux
In my tmux.conf file I have it configured to open windows, name them, setup panes etc.. etc..
However one issue I have is that if one of the panes launches a command, let's say ls, then the pane ...
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Why might tmux only be capable of attaching once per shell session?
I'm using tmux on a Fedora 8 server (workplace restriction) to monitor several boxes on a stress rack. I noticed that I can only attach to my detached tmux session once per shell session. In order ...
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How to run streamripper and mplayer in a split-screen X terminal, via a single script
I want to run streamripper in its own X Terminal (window), then split the terminal horizontally, and then run mplayer in the lower half.
This is simple enough to do manually, but getting a script to ...
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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 ...
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using environment variables in tmux.conf files
Is it possible to use an environment variable in a tmux.conf file? I am trying to set a default-path to an environment variable. Currently what I am trying is:
set -g default-path $MYVAR
further I ...
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how to close all panes but the current pane in tmux
I have a key bound to setup panes to my liking, but sometimes things get messed up or out of hand and I want to close all the panes and rerun the script. Is there a simple tmux command to close all ...
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How can I move tmux's status bar to the top?
How can I move tmux's status bar to the top? Can't find it on the man page.
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How can I bind multiple tmux commands to one keystroke?
Specifically I'm trying to give a notification after some command was completed. So, for example, if I reload my configuration file, I'd like to have some confirmation that it worked, which might be ...
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Tmux - move window to pane
How do I move an existing window into a pane in another window in tmux when I have multiple windows? And vise versa?
I'm coming from screen, where I can switch to the pane and then switch windows ...
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What are the virtues of multitasking with traditional job control vs Tmux/Screen?
tmux and screen let you run different processes (e.g. vim, a bash script, mysql, psql, etc) in different virtual windows. But traditional Unix job control (using CTRL-z, fg, bg, and jobs) seem to give ...
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When you type a search term in copy mode, is there a way to erase the search term with something like CTRL-U?
I enter into copy mode and do a search of the tmux window buffer with /. This works great, except when I want to do a second search, the original search term appears at the search prompt and I have to ...
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Create new-window with 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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Automatically adjust window width in tmux
Is there a way to set tmux so that it automatically adjusts window width when I switch to the pane so that it will be wide axactly as the longest (visible on screen) line in the file I have open?
I'm ...
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Terminal and web browser combination
I often use only two applications, terminal and web browser.
I like the tmux application which enables to split a terminal window into more regions. I noticed that I can open lynx in another region ...
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How can I tell if I'm in a tmux session from a bash script?
I like to keep my bash_profile in a git repository and clone it to whatever machines I have shell access to. Since I'm in tmux most of the time I have a user@host string in the status line, rather ...
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How can I run a script immediately after connecting via SSH?
I started to ask this question but answered it while I had it open. I'm going to post this question, follow it up with my solution and leave it open to other potential solutions.
<backstory>
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Tmux viewport caused by multiple concurrent sessions
When attaching to the same tmux sessions from multiple computers using ssh and tmux attach, my screen looks like:
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$> |........
|........
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Is it possible to run a Vim clientserver instance over SSH+tmux
I've been a vim junkie for a year or so now and I've got some great little tricks burnt in to my memory. I do a lot of development (at the office) in a terminal on Ubuntu.
One of the things I value ...
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Is there a tmux shortcut to go read only?
I've been using screen for years now as a way of ensuring that any remote work is safely kept open in after disconnects/crashes. In fact, as a matter of course, I use screens even when working ...
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Scrollability of text when using tmux?
Scrollability of text in some terminals:
| tty | xterm | urxvt | guake | terminator
screen | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y
tmux | N | N | Y | N | N
I notice in this ...
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Running several commands in a screen-split
I have a few long running commands that I would like to run together in the same screen (same tab in the terminal app).
My current setup is like this:
tmux new-session -d 'cmd1'
tmux split-window ...
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How do i bind to Shift+arrow in tmux?
I'm looking at tmux from screen, and have hit a bump while configuring the (highly configurable!) tmux key bindings.
Problem is, in my .screenrc i have
bindkey ^[[d prev
bindkey ^[[c next
bindkey ...
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Is there an equivalent of GNU Screen's “log” command in tmux?
I make heavy use of screen's "log" command to log the output of a session to a file, when I am making changes in a given environment. I searched through tmux's man page, but couldn't find an ...
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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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`$XAUTHORITY` appears from 'nowhere' on su+tmux
When I switched from su+bash to su+tmux+zsh I noticed that I get $XAUTHORITY variable defined as /root/.xauthXXXXXX where XXXXXX are 6 random alphanumeric characters. With previous configuration X ...
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How do I bind the tmux prefix to a Super?
I find even Ctrl+b to be very emacs like but I understand the point. I'm wondering if I could bind it to a single keypress of a key I don't other wise use? namely Super_L (also known as the left ...
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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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tmux vs. GNU Screen
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.
