Create new tmux session from inside a tmux session
The quickest way (assuming you use ctrl-b as your command prefix) is: ctrl-b :new To create a new session, then ctrl-b s to interactively select and attach to the session.
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Getting back old copy paste behaviour in tmux, with mouse
Copy the text: select the text and press mouse left-button with shift key press too. Paste the text with shift key + middle-button
How to automatically start tmux on SSH session?
Server-side configuration: To automatically start tmux on your remote server when ordinarily logging in via SSH (and only SSH), edit the ~/.bashrc of your user or root (or both) on the remote server accordingly: if [[ $- =~ i ]] && [[ -z “$TMUX” ]] && [[ -n “$SSH_TTY” ]]; then tmux attach-session -t ssh_tmux … Read more
How to send commands when opening a tmux session inside another tmux session?
The send-prefix command can be used to send your prefix keystroke to (the process running in) the active pane. By default, the prefix is C-b and C-b is bound to send-prefix (so that hitting it twice sends a single C-b to the active pane). This is just what we need to access the bindings of … Read more
How to create new tmux session if none exists
I figured it out (and had it pointed out to me). tmux attach || tmux new
tmux: How to join two tmux windows into one, as panes?
Actually I found the way to do that. Suppose the two windows are number 1 and 2. Use join-pane -s 2 -t 1 This will move the 2nd window as a pane to the 1st window. The opposite command is break-pane
Tmux: How do I find out the currently running version of tmux?
As pointed out in a comment, tmux -V returns the version: $ tmux -V tmux 3.0a Tested on Centos 7 and OSX 12.5.
How do I rename a pane in tmux?
Renaming a window Ctrl-b , where Ctrl-b is the default prefix key. Alternatively, run: tmux rename-window <new name> Or type Ctrl-b : rename-window <new name>. Renaming a pane In newer versions you can rename pane using: tmux select-pane -T <title> Or type Ctrl-b : select-pane -T <pane_name>. Also, I have set -g pane-border-status top and … Read more
How do I clear the scrollback buffer in tmux?
This same question has been plaguing me for quite some time. Here’s the best I’ve come up with. Put this into your .tmux.conf file: bind -n C-k clear-history This binds ctrl-k to the tmux clear-history command. The -n after bind makes it so you don’t have to issue the tmux command prefix (ctrl-b by default). … Read more
Keep the window’s name fixed in tmux
As shown in a comment to the main post: set-option -g allow-rename off in your .tmux.conf file