tmux

What’s tmux

• A terminal multiplexer
• Allow open multiple tabs (multiple terminals)
  

Why we need tmux

• Keep your working session alive
• tmux will not be terminated when connection is lost

Advantage of tmux:

• Multiple sessions, windows, panes
  • sessions -browser
    • tmux command will open a new session
  • window -tab
    • One session can have multiple windows
  • pane -spit window
    • A window can be split into multiple panes

Session

• Create a new session (open a new browser)
  • $ tmux
  • Outside of tmux session
• Detach current session
  • $ tmux detach
  • Inside of tmux session
• Attach to previous session
  • $ tmux attach
  • Attach only if previous sessions exist
• List opened sessions
  • $ tmux list-sessions
• Attach to previous session by id
  • $ tmux attach -t session-id

tmux - bindkey and command

• Defualt: Ctrl + b

• Command:
  
  

• The common command

• For Pane

  1. <Ctrl+b> + "：進行水平分割
  2. <Ctrl+b> + %：進行垂直分割
  3. <Ctrl+b> + <方向鍵>：移動到其他 pane
  4. <Ctrl+b> + x：關閉目前的 pane
     

• For Session
  1.<Ctrl+b> + d：把 session 放到背景(detach)
  2.$ tmux at：attach 到背景的 session
  3.$ tmux attach -t <number>: 開到指定的session
  4.$tmux kill-session [ <number> ]:刪除指定的session
  5.$tmux ls:展示所有的sessions

Costimize you tmux

• create a config file ~/.tmux.conf
• Look up on Internet for more details

tmux v.s. screen