tmux is a terminal multiplexer, which allows users to work with terminals in terms of windows and panes, which can be created, destroyed, attached, and reattached at will.
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How do I bind the tmux prefix key to C-'?
I'd like to set my tmux prefix key to Ctrl-apostrophe, but when I use set-option prefix "C-'" or set-option prefix C-"'", tmux complains that "unknown key: C-'". Similarly for ` and :. Is there a way ...
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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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tmux equivalent of screen's 'at' command?
GNU screen has a command, at, which lets you control other sessions by sending screen commands to them. Does tmux have something like that? I tried send-prefix and send-keys, but those send keys to ...
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Get current window number for bash prompt
I want to replace status bar with bash prompt displaying window number like ①. How can I get current window number in the shell?
There's TMUX_PANE env variable, unfortunately no TMUX_WINDOW.
The ...
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vim : <c-a> occupied from tmux/screen
I use screen/tmux and vim.
In vim, I can't use <c-a> for increment a number, <c-a> is occupied from screen/tmux.
any suggestion for a simple map for increment a number ?
I try with
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Using tmux with both emacs and vim
What is the best default key binding for tmux and why if one sometimes uses emacs and sometimes uses vim (on Linux Mint 12)? Ctrl-b is OK, but that conflicts a bit with the bash shell and emacs.
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Looking for non-conflicting cross-platform keybinding consistency
I use Mac OS X and Arch Linux and occasionally log into FreeBSD and Debian servers by ssh. My favoured tools are zsh, ssh, tmux, git, vim and irssi. I use iTerm2 on Mac OS X and unicode-rxvt on Arch ...
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Vim through Tmux looks completely out of whack, is there a way to fix this?
When SSH'd into another machine, I use Vim as my text editor, and I'm trying to add Tmux to my tool set as well. However, when I use vim through Tmux, the colors are completely wrong, and Vim is ...
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Bind Ctrl-Tab to cycle through windows in tmux
I'm trying to figure out how to bind ctrl-tab to cycle through all open windows, I've tried:
bind-key -n C-Tab select-window -t :.+
which says Unknown key.
What am I missing?
Note: I don't want to ...
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Move already running program into screen
Is it possible to have a already started program move to screen/tmux? I'd like to have something like the following:
program;
^Z
screen;
fg;
I know the above won't work, but is there a way to ...
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tmux keyboard shortcuts not working properly
I've started using tmux of recent, and changed the bindings so that it would respond to C-a instead of C-b.
These are the lines in the .tmux.conf file to do this:
unbind C-b
set -g prefix C-a
But, ...
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Terminal keystrokes confusion
#1
tmux ignores some keystrokes:
Ctrl + Delete
Ctrl + F*
#2
Something similar happens in virtual consoles (even without tmux) with the difference that Ctrl + Delete and Delete behaves the same.
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Sending commands to parent tmux session from vim
I have a split window setup with vim and Lynx in tmux. I'm trying to build a script so that I can send a custom command to vim which will save the script I'm working on, switch focus to the Lynx pane, ...
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How can I make ctrl+left/right keys work right 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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TMUX: Limit tab's characters
Whenever I listen to music with Music on Console, the tab will display the song’s title, and it is long, it takes up the entire width of my status bar.
I want to limit X amount of characters ...
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Is sharing a tmux sockets between hosts possible?
I'm wondering if it's possible to share a tmux server socket between different hosts. For example, I have a virtual machine (guest) running inside my host, and I'm running a tmux session in the guest, ...
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Cannot resize tmux pane from bash script
Background and Problem:
I have created a tmux script to open a few windows. It works great but then I wanted to place a vertically split pane on one window and resize it to 5 characters tall. I ...
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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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Can tmux list tabs vertically?
Is there a way to get the list of active tabs in tmux to be vertical along the left edge of the window? (Like chrome's --enable-vertical-tabs)
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Can I connect to a tmux session on a server _without_ sharing it with another user or detaching his session?
If I connect to a tmux session with the tmux a command, I end up sharing the session with a friend and we cannot work on our own thing (since we have to work in different windows). On the other hand, ...
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tmux refresh display after terminal width change
With screen, in a terminal that's 80 columns wide, I can do something like:
for i in $(seq 81); do echo -n "m"; done; echo
and then resize the window to be a little wider, and the last 'm' jumps up ...
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tmux: Cannot SSH from inside tmux, even though I have agent-forwarding (ssh -A) on
So I have keys to some servers stored locally on my MacBook, but I work from inside a Virtual Machine a considerable amount of time, so I SSH to the VM with ssh -A. This allows me to SSH to servers ...
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UTF-8 Not Working in PuTTY when using SSH Remote command
So. I am using PuTTY to connect to a remote server that has an irssi client running for me constantly through tmux.
Connecting to the server, and typing "tmux attach" works fine and everything works ...
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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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tmux: sharing current window title (#T) from within nested tmux sessions
I have begun using tmux recently to really improve my terminal sessions. One thing I need to be able to do is connect to a remote server, which is also running tmux. However, I have found that the ...
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How to make a pane width of tmux fixed?
Say I split a window into 2 panes, the right one has width 20 cells. But when I resize the outside terminal emulator, the pane's width changes.
Is there any way to fix this? Because I wanna display ...
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tmux: Link panes?
Is it possible to do this? I've got a window 'dev' with several panes in it. One of those windows is an irssi process. Is it possible to make that same irssi process appear in window 'play' as another ...
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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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Changing puttyTRAY's URL regex in order to match URLs across lines separated by tmux window boundaries
I use puttytray to access a shell account on which I have a tmux instance running. Inside tmux, I have irssi running in a window. When people post long URLs in IRC, however, it's annoying since these ...
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Tmux and ZSH custom prompt : bug with window name
I have customized my ZSH prompt with oh-my-zsh to make it more readable and add information about git if I'm in a repository.
Example :
bob@inf [~/docs] %
bob@inf [~/src/nicest] master % (in a git ...
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Can I get tmux split screen to retain the pwd?
Say my present working directory is /home/abc/documents/xyz. Now in tmux, when I split my screen, the new pane defaults to the /home/abc directory. I want the pwd to be retained upon splitting.
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Using gray color in tmux status bar
I am using iterm2 on mac os x and I can't get something like color245 to show up as gray, seems like tmux uses black instead. I am using iterm2 on mac os x. Any idea what might be wrong?
setw -g ...
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Maximize window in tmux
tmux shows screen like this:
[root@wpc-fc2 init]# |············
|············
...
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tmux and text selection with mouse through putty
I'm running tmux in a putty session. Normally(running just a plain shell or GNU Screen) to select text I'd just left click and drag the mouse across some text.
With tmux, I have to hold shift while ...
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tmux status bar messages last only about a second: can I extend this?
I've searched through the man pages several times for a way to set the length of time that status bar messages (what you see if you enter display-message "hello world" at a tmux command prompt) are ...
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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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tmux died and says “no sessions” - is there any way to recover?
This sucks.
$ tmux attach-session
no sessions
My sysadmin upgraded tmux and now I can't reattach. My processes are still running according to ps ux. Is there any hope of recovering my session?
...
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Temporarily full screen a pane in tmux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Maximizing” a pane in tmux
In tmux I would like to be able to make the currently active pane either full screen or become the only pane in a new window ...
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convert screen hardstatus to tmux
I'm a longtime screen user, but the move to tmux is growing inevitable.
I have a fairly large .screenrc that I am working toward porting to tmux (I'd like the bulk of my existing workflow to just ...
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Running nicklist with irssi using screen inside tmux?
I try to run the nicklist addon with irssi using screen inside tmux but strangely :) it doesn't work and I get the input on top of the screen. Is it possible to run nicklist when you are on tmux?
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tmux deleting currently displayed content when pressing ^L
I have the following options in my .tmuxrc so the PuTTY scrollback still works.
setw -g alternate-screen off
set -g terminal-overrides ...
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How to make my terminal look like this
I ran across this the other day and was instantly amazed.
He says he uses a custom Vim colorscheme (easy) and dwm with tmux.
I've downloaded tmux and I'm having some issues with it (my CTRL-b ...
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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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Tmux: How can I link a window as split-window?
how can I grab a window from totally different tmux session and attach it as a horizontal/vertical split to current window?
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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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How can I keep the tmux prefix key pressed between commands?
In GNU screen, I can keep Ctrl+a pressed in between commands.
For instance, to change windows I keep Ctrl+a pressed and just keep pressing n without releasing Ctrl+a.
Is this doable in tmux? ...
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Bash scripts with tmux to launch a 4-paned window
Can anyone help explain what's going on with tmux, bash, and exec? I'm trying to set up a tmux session with a 4-pane window. Ideally, I want to run a command in 3 of the panes: e.g. a Ruby Thin server ...
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In tmux how should I bind a key in the 'emacs-edit' table?
I find that when I am editing a command in tmux, the M-b and M-f are not bound. I tried the following:
tmux bind-key -t emacs-edit M-b previous-word
But tmux says that's a unknown command. What ...
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Macports - Tmux status bar config
Anyone know where this is located?
I tried the usual directories that macports uses and there's nothing in my home directory.
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bind tmux prefix to OS X cmd key (or any other binding)
I'm used to iTerm2 (or Terminal.app for this case) on OS X. But I want to move to use tmux (or screen, but the problem is similar to both apps).
So my idea is to have a single iTerm tab with a tmux ...
