tmux

• acts as window manager for terminals
• provides sessions

commands are triggered by prefix key (defaults to ctrl-b) followed by command key. see list of all commands w/ ctrl-b ?.

panes and windows

split terminal w/ panes, which behave like tiling wm. create new full screen terminals w/ windows.

• %, " split vertically, horizontally
• ←, →, ↑, ↓ move to pane left, right, up, down
• ctrl-←, ctrl-→, ctrl-↑, ctrl-↓ resize pane in given direction
• z toggle make pane full screen (w/o transforming it to window)
• {, } swap last panes
• c create new window
• n, p, [number] move to next, previous, number-th window
• , name current window

scrolling

• [ enter copy mode, move w/ page up, down
• ⏎ leave copy mode

sessions

# create session, optionally w/ with name
tmux
tmux new -s name
tmux rename-session -t oldname newname
# list all sessions
tmux ls
# attach to last or named session
tmux attach
tmux attach -t 2
# switch to named session
tmux switch -t 2

• d detach current session
• D detach session of choice

configuration: ~/.tmux.conf

enforce config reload w/ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

todo

• [ ] howto scroll with mouse wheel
• [ ] howto use tmux as default shell
• [ ] checkout status bar features
• [ ] why and how D? how/why can i have multiple sessions at once?