tmux

tmux
Tmux session, with two horizontal and one vertical pane.
Developer(s) Nicholas Marriott
Initial release 20 November 2007 (2007-11-20)[1]
Stable release
2.7 / 22 March 2018 (2018-03-22)
Repository https://github.com/tmux/tmux
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like
Available in English
Type Terminal multiplexer
License ISC license
Website tmux.github.io

tmux is a terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single window. It is useful for running more than one command-line program at the same time. It can also be used to detach processes from their controlling terminals, allowing SSH sessions to remain active without being visible.[2]

Features

tmux includes most features of GNU Screen. It allows users to start a terminal session with clients that are not bound to a specific physical or virtual console; multiple terminal sessions can be created within a single terminal session and then freely rebound from one virtual console to another, and each session can have several connected clients. The features that differentiate tmux from GNU Screen are[3]

  • menus for interactive selection of running sessions, windows or clients
  • window can be linked to an arbitrary number of sessions[4]
  • vi-like or Emacs command mode (with auto completion) for managing tmux[5]
  • lack of built-in serial and telnet clients (which some consider bloat for the terminal multiplexer)[3]
  • easier configuration[6][7]
  • different command keys—it is not a drop-in replacement for screen, but can be configured to use compatible keybindings

Adoption

tmux is included in OpenBSD,[2] and is available as a package for many other Unix-like operating systems.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Changelog
  2. 1 2 "Keyboard and Display Controls", Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, OpenBSD, retrieved 7 December 2011 |chapter= ignored (help)
  3. 1 2 Perrin, Chad (25 October 2010), "Is tmux the GNU Screen killer?", TechRepublic, retrieved 7 December 2011
  4. ↑ de Weerd, Paul (12 July 2009), "Interview with Nicholas Marriott on tmux", OpenBSD Journal, retrieved 7 December 2011
  5. 1 2 "Tmux – the Terminal multiplexer", Linuxaria, 15 September 2011, retrieved 7 December 2011
  6. ↑ O'Higgins, Niall (4 June 2009), tmux, a BSD alternative to GNU Screen, retrieved 7 December 2011
  7. ↑ Alexander, Alex (17 May 2010), "switching from gnu screen to tmux", Linux~ized, retrieved 7 December 2011
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