: (in the status line) set-option -g status-keys vi cmd-new-session.c and find notify_client.That shows you when tmux triggers the hook and what hook-name is used.. On konsole, it seems to filter out the control characters and just print `q`. The necessary shell script to emit the DCL command to set the terminal width and height becomes: Just like screen, in AIX, I use backtick as my C-a. 3. I wanted to confirm that there was interest from the maintainers first. By the way, if you add this in the Alacritty configuration: This works quite alright, however after a certain period of time the terminal window title reverts to the original title. $ tmux save-buffer -b temp-capture-buffer ~/tmux.log Delete Today was the first day I stopped using screen and started using tmux, which is a superior alternative which supports a more complex range of splits and has a nicer interface. "run-shell '~/bin/tmux-move-window.sh #{window_id} #I %1'" The command-prompt asks the user for the target position, which it sets to %1 . ~/.bashrc) and pass your arbitrary command. In order to execute a command, tmux needs it to be split up into its name and arguments. They allow for reconnection of sessions that become detached (disconnected) where the process is still running but there was some sort of network interruption. The "-d" option causes the session to be detached from its previous OK so I found a bit of a work around that works. I first declare a new command that gets as an input a command and executes the given command and t There is however the run-shell tmux command that allows you to run arbitrary code in a shell. The configuration file is a set of tmux commands which are executed in sequence when the server is first started. If a command in the configuration file fails, tmux will report an error and exit without executing further commands. If I stop the daemon and use tmux without it, there are no problems. For the (second part of) the "tspace" script you can use: bind-key S run-shell "tmux rename-session $(basename $(pwd)) over 1 > Currently more useful to users of iterm2. Keep Running SSH Sessions Using the byobu Tool. Because all the tmux commands are also available in the console, it seems cleaner to me to add this directly to your .tmux.conf via a bind-key assignment to run-shell. Many of us who work with [*]nix environments and command line will be aware of two of the most invaluable tools screen and tmux ; Available in many flavors and with tons of custom configuration ability, these tools help save the states of the command line, keep the command line active even when abruptly disconnected or you gracefully end the terminal at the end of the days work. A good demonstration of what the above changes enable is the following tmux mapping: bind -T root C-s run-shell "tmuxp freeze -yqo .tmuxp.yaml" This silently saves the current session in the current working directory of tmux Commands. Loading. This can be taken a step further by filtering the results to a topic of interest, e.g. Store contents of tmux pane to a file to keep the history or inspect recently executed commands. tmux #. Persistence: All tmux sessions can be saved in-state as sessions. I think a plugin usage will be better since you are not limiting yourself to plugin. Installation and Initial config #. Tmux Commands [edit | edit source] All commands to tmux are prefixed with a key Ctrl-b (as opposed to Ctrl-a in screen). This allows you to run tmux on remote servers. Selecting text in a tmux pane To attach a session, we enter the command tmux attach -d -t . To run source-file from a shell you need to call tmux source-file . Let's start by installing tmux and powerline:. Use the key sequence Ctrl-b + d to detach from the session. In gnome-terminal, I see some control characters and then a `q`. I ended up creating vim-simpl for this. One function allows you to create a REPL (mapped to t in my config, as below), and another to load set -g lock-after-time 1800. setw -g remain-on-exit on. Optional Arguments--quiet. Our prefix/leader key is Control + a now (just like the screen multiplexer). tmuxs window-style setting changes the default foreground and background colours for windows, and you can use it to toggle your terminal between light-on-dark and dark-on-light themes: $ # Change the current window (all panes) to light background. A tmux window is a layout of panes (e.g., two The tables below will show both the default and modified key bindings. Reattach to the Tmux session by typing tmux attach-session -t my_session. Now press ctrl-b-l, it will automatically create a session with a window attached to it. About the ## # $ tmux set window-style 'fg=#171421,bg=#ffffff' $ # Change If you build tmux from Git master you can send the output to an empty pane, for example: If you run tmux send-keys vim Enter, that will send the literal keypresses to your current pane to spawn vim. There's a display-message command in tmux, from its man page: Now, history will show you all these commands, both from within tmux as before. you can see this Vim & Tmux video for a demo of the plugin by Jack Franklin. default-command shell-command Set the command used for new windows (if not specified when the window is created) to shell-command, which may be any sh(1) command. Backtick-d will disconnect the sessions. A true added benefit is knowing that this text is actually in tmux buffer, so you can scroll and search it using native tmux methods. If the shell command does anything wonky (like start by sleeping) this is an additional safeguard against interrupting the vim session. session=whatever window=${session}:0 pane=${window}.4 tmux send-keys -t "$pane" C-z 'some -new command' Enter tmux select-pane -t "$pane" tmux select-window -t "$window" tmux attach-session -t "$session" Note that, on the send-keys command, you should actually type the letters E n t e r, to tell tmux to send a newline Tmux sessions are persistent, which means that programs running in Tmux will continue to run even if you get disconnected. All commands in Tmux start with a prefix, which by default is ctrl+b. This article is also available in Russian. You can easily install Tmux using the package manager of your distro. The default key bindings are quite unintuitive but can be changed to something a bit more usable.