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tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

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Features that differentiate tmux from GNU Screen are:

  • menus for interactive selection of running sessions, windows or clients
  • window can be linked to an arbitrary number of sessions
  • vi-like or Emacs command mode (with auto completion) for managing tmux
  • lack of built-in serial and telnet clients
  • different configuration language
  • different command keys—it is not a drop-in replacement for screen

For more information have a look at the Sourceforge project page of tmux.

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How to kill all tmux sessions (or at least multiple sessions) from the CLI?

How to kill all tmux sessions (or at least multiple sessions) from the (Ubuntu) CLI? When I do ps aux | grep tmux I see 3 processes: UU 2970 0.0 0.0 19556 1228 pts/0 S+ 02:48 0:00 tmux UU 3445 0.0 0.0 12944 988 pts/5 S+ …
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Where is the default tmux.conf file located?

I want to copy the default tmux.conf file to my home directory, but I can't find the location in Ubuntu 12.04. The man page states that the file resides at /etc/tmux.conf however this does not match with my setup.
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Vim in tmux display wrong colors

I installed Ubuntu 11.10. Then downloaded Solarized theme for Gnome Terminal. From terminal my vim looks good: plugin vim-powerline displays correctly and syntax is highlighted with proper colors. But when I run tmux and there run vim - syntax…
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How do I access tmux session after I leave it?

I'm using tmux on EC2 AWS but I want to see what is going on in one session I created. I use Ctrl+b and then d to leave the session.
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How do I make the F-keys work in byobu, for midnight commander (mc), htop, etc?

I use byobu with the tmux backend on my 12.04 server. I'd like to use the midnight commander shortcut keys with it, but the F keys don't work. I've seen some posts on the issues…
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What is the difference between Terminator and Tmux ?

What is the different between Tmux and Terminator? I currently use Terminator which allows me to add more shell in same screen by splitting them horizontally or vertically. I read about them in some articles but I'm still not able to figure out the…
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How do I see the history of the commands I have run in tmux?

I am running 12.04 server and when I type history in bash I see most of the commands I have entered into bash but I don't see the commands I have entered when in a tmux session. How do I see the history of the commands I have run inside a tmux…
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UTF-8 character not showing properly in tmux

I use ♪ character in my zsh theme's for prompt. But in tmux, my prompt was behaving weirdly, showing extra spaces, like this: ♪ ~ I can type from here ♪ ~ Instead of here like in zsh, and sometimes when I do stuff like cd ♪ ~ cd ~ ♪ ~ cdcd / ♪ ~…
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How to start tmux with several panes open at the same time?

Suppose I start tmux and immediately execute Ctrl+b+% and Ctrl+b+". This gives me a tall pane on the left side of the screen; the right side of the screen has a top and bottom pane. How can I configure tmux to start in this configuration without…
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What are socket files?

Recently, I started using tmux; I'm trying to use the pair programming feature in that software. During the process a socket file was created. My question is: what are socket files, how am I to open them on Ubuntu and how are they used?
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How do I change the default shell used in Byobu (tmux)?

I've become addicted to Byobu and I've recently shifted from bash to zsh; Now I want to combine the two, however I have a one initial pre-requisite: I cannot make zsh the default shell for my user as it's a shared account and the rest of the team…
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How to use Byobu keybindings in a nested remote session?

I'm using Byobu (with Tmux, inside of gnome-terminal) and I have a problem with its keybindings (which I probably fail to understand). I launch byobu, open a few windows then, from one of these windows, I ssh into another machine and launch byobu…
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Clicking in ssh terminal causes 'junk' characters [0;83;32M0] after tmux

Both my local and remote are Ubuntu 18, though I have seen it in 16 as well. I establish a ssh to my remote server, start tmux (2.1.3), something causes the pipe to break. When I ssh back in, but before I start tmux, whenever I click in the…
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How to run tmux/screen with systemd > 230?

I run 16.04 and systemd now kills tmux when the user disconnects (summary of the change). Is there a way to run tmux or screen (or any similar program) with systemd 230? I read all the heated disussion about pros and cons of the behavious but no…
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How to get byobu to launch tmux instead of screen?

The latest versions of byobu should apparently be configurable to run tmux instead of screen, but I haven't been able to. Advice appreciated
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