tmux is an

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terminal multiplexer for

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s. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single window. It is useful for running more than one

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program at the same time. It can also be used to detach processes from their controlling terminals, allowing remote sessions to remain active without being visible.

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. Some notable tmux features are: * Menus for interactive selection of running sessions, windows or clients * Window can be linked to an arbitrary number of sessions * vi-like or

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command mode (with auto completion) for managing tmux * Vertical and horizontal window split support tmux lacks built-in

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and

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support. It uses different command keys from the ones used by screen, so it is not a drop-in replacement for screen, but it can be configured to use compatible

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Availability

tmux is included in the

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base system, and is available as a package for many other

operating systems.

References

{{OpenBSD Unix software Terminfo Terminal multiplexers Free software programmed in C Software using the ISC license

Features

Availability

See also

References