The default prefix key is C-b( Ctrl-b on Linux or Cmd-b on Mac). This status bar shows important information about your system and your tmux session.Ĭommands in tmux are triggered by a prefix key followed by a command key. You’ll know you’re in tmux when you see a green status bar at the bottom. To start a new tmux session type tmux into the terminal.

When you run it, this starts the tmux server that keeps track of processes. On Ubuntu and similar distros, do sudo apt-get install tmux or brew install tmux in Mac. Installing tmux is pretty straightforward on Linux and Mac. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, it allows you to create windows and panes in your terminal and it offers you the ability to run processes in named sessions. Using the terminal emulator’s tabs feature works okay for simple use cases but once you start running long running commands over SSH on multiple machines, you need something more powerful. All along I’ve been using tabs terminal tabs to keep track of each server connection and the processes running in it. Twitter GitHub Vuyisile Ndlovu Musings of a backend Software Developer 30th November 2020 by Vuyisile in linux, screen, sessions, tmux TmuxĪ part of my job involves connecting to a couple of Amazon EC2 instances(Linux servers) regularly to run commands, build, debug and deploy code.

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