Tmux
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Tmux, which stands for terminal multiplexer, allows you to run and seperate multiple login sessions within a seperate terminal window. This program is also useful for dealing with multiple programs from the terminal and seperating programs from the session that started the program, making it possible so remote processes continue running even when the user has disconnected from the SSH connection. In our case, we can use this program to keep an instance of weechat
running, even when we exit the session. This is useful as we can read previous IRC messages without losing context/history from disconnecting connection, or switching between different devices.
the basics
To start Tmux, enter the command tmux
into the terminal. Use Control + B
followed by ?
to open up the help screen. Here are other controls:
Ctrl+b
c
Create a new window (with shell)Ctrl+b
w
List all windows (press Esc to exit this mode)Ctrl+b
0
Switch to window 0 (by number)Ctrl+b
,
Rename the current windowCtrl+b
"
Split current window horizontally into two panesCtrl+b
%
Split current window vertically into two panesCtrl+b
arrow-key
Switch the input focus to the next paneCtrl+b
&
Close the current regionCtrl+b
d
Detach the current sessionCtrl+b
t
View the full-screen clock (press Esc to exit this mode)
restoring tmux session
Anything done after typing tmux
can be safely closed by closing the terminal window or detaching the session. When reopening the SSH connection, you can quickly type in tmux a
to re-attach the session.
Multiple tmux
sessions can be listed using tmux ls
(tmux list-sessions
).
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