Tmux — For Ninjas

Its been quite long I am using Tmux. Terminal muxer, or multiplexer. Tmux is beautiful utility to make your terminal more powerful. Once you install Tmux your terminal can be divided into multiple sessions and can increase parallelism. A sessions can have multiple windows. A is a single view. window A Window can further split into panes. Tmux installation is straight forward. It is available as package in almost all major linux distributions. Tmux can be installed on all major Linux/mac with below commands. For Debian/Ubuntu distributions sudo apt-get install tmux For Fedora distribution sudo dnf install tmux And For RPM based distributions sudo yum install tmux For Mac brew install tmux For Windows Sorry Not Available is be default but I do use , that means you would first hit (and release) and then type . prefix + d prefix + t Control + b d Session For your first session simply type tmux in terminal: tmux This will create a new tmux session. Once you run above command you will see your terminal turns like below. Just use exit to get out of your tmux first session. Just remember ctrl + b is your default prefix. Note:- (= prefix ctrl +b) Pane(s) Terminal can be split further into numerous panes. for vertical split and for horizontal split. prefix + % prefix + “ To navigate between pane use prefix + arrow-keys . To close panes ctrl+d or simply exit. To make pane full size just hit prefix + z. To toggle between different pane prefix + o. Also to display clock in pane hit prefix + t. Some useful commands List all the running sessions tmux ls You should see below like output for above command 0: 1 windows (created Fri Aug 31 15:10:27 2018) [173x45] (attached) 2. Start new session in tmux with name tmux new -s abhishekamralkar Please change abhishekamralkar to whatever you want to name your session. 3. To attach to sessions tmux a -t 0 Above command with attach us to session 0. To check what all commands available with tmux run prefix + ?