Tmux windows1/12/2024 ![]() Installing tmuxĪ package exists as tmux in most package managers, it's pretty quick to install and should have almot no dependencies.Įxample for Debian-based distributions: apt update & apt install tmux Before we start - tmux's main concepts I think there's value in fist getting to know a program before knowing if you want to go all in with it but I'm also aware some people have a personality time that is either go all in or don't go, which is fine, but this article is probably not for them. I also perfectly understand how doing everything with the keyboard and optimizing keys to be very easily accessed makes you more productive in the end but it also tends to gimp any adoption of the tool whereas, if you look at something like Visual Studio Code, it's very easy to adopt but can be hard to master would you want to do everything as fast as possible or even with vim bindings (there are extensions for that). The issue is that the early investment in learning tmux (or vim for that matter) is very high and not straight-forward in any way.įor instance, both vim and tmux support multi-pane views and have their own copy-paste buffers which aren't shared (they aren't shared with the system either if you're using a graphical interface).įixing these issues requires plugins and fiddling with tmux's config and all of that is quite a stiff wall to climb for someone that's not used to these kinds of tools, even though you can't argue how light they are and how practical it could be to bring your own development environment to modest servers with no issues. It doesn't quite get as far into it as vim does but many tmux users will customize it to have better key binds, usually close to vim and, if possible, on the home row of the keyboard. Hurdles to starting using tmuxĪs we mentioned before, tmux doesn't need a graphical user interface but it doesn't need mouse support either, it's built in a fashion similar to the vi and vim editors in that you can do everything using the keyboard. ![]() Learn once, earn increased productivity on most of the possible work environments you could come across. using the fork system call) so that they're no longer a child of a console process but this isn't trivial at all and tmux helps you do it from the topmost level with a single key stroke.Īnother advantage of tmux is that you can bring it everywhere: on MacOS, Windows (using WSL), Linux, BSDs, server environments and more. Of course there are various ways to manually detach processes (e.g. With tmux, you can keep the session alive in the background with whatever commands were running in there before. Logging out from an SSH session (or any terminal session for that matter) kills the terminal process as well as all of its children. when connected to a server using SSH) is very lightweight, and has the "detach session" feature. Tmux is different in that it always works, even with no graphical interface installed (e.g. ![]() Most of the graphical terminal clients ( yes, even on Windows) will allow you to open multiple terminal tabs and sometimes even lay them out on the same screen, for instance I heavily use Tilix which does just that: ![]() Copy-paste and scroll back or search terminal session with or without a graphical interface ( which means it can be very handy in SSH sessions to servers). ![]()
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