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Background: An co-worker at my company uses tmux all the time, in our spare-time he teached me mastering tmux and vim and I really fall in love with the power of this combination.

Currently, I am mainly using tmux in OS X when I start the Terminal app. Depending where I go, I choose a different laptop (therefor other OS'es too) and so I often code via ssh remotely with my server running Ubuntu (Server version) where everything is at it's place.

Problem: I'd like to connect to my server and instantly have the last tmux session avaiable and never having the need to use the classic bash.

I currently solve it by having tmux new-session -A -s main in my rc config and using twice CTRL-D although I still fall back when I exit.

Is there a better way of doing this?

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What about chsh? –  o11c Jul 16 at 21:47

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You don't want to overwrite your bash. You want tmux only for interactive sessions and you don't want to do it recursively like in the other answer.

Simple example taken from [1], with common use case where you try to attach last session, which can be useful. This should go into your ~/.bashrc.

echo Checking for tmux
if [ -z ${TMUX} ]; then
  /usr/bin/tmux attach || /usr/bin/tmux
fi

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236875

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Are you speaking of launching tmux from your bash configuration file?

In that case, you should launch tmux by preceding it by the keyword exec:

exec tmux ...

in order to have bash being fully replaced by tmux.

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