Questions tagged [tmux]
tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.
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How can the [] messages in tmux be suppressed?
Using tmux in a script, tmux produces messages like [remote detached from 585664.devpts0] or [exited]
How can these messages be suppressed?
I use in config
set -g visual-bell off
set -g status off;
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How to keep processes running after logging out (X/Gnome)?
I run more or less stock Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, using the default Gnome desktop.
Background:
When I start background processes from scripts or a terminal after logging in to Gnome, these are all owned by ...
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"sessions should be nested with care, unset $TMUX to force"
I'm trying to switch from screen (I've been a long time user) to tmux and am trying to replicate a setup I had working with screen for quite some time, namely I have the following line at the bottom ...
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Terminal/tmux slow on Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop in VMWare
I'm unsure whether this is a VMWare issue or an Ubuntu issue. In general, Ubuntu runs fine. I've ran glmark2 to completion and gotten a score of ~3900. I can run Firefox in the VM and browse the web ...
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Attach tmux to a session without numbering index
> tmux ls
: 3 windows (created Tue Mar 4 10:51:07 2025)
1: 1 windows (created Thu Mar 6 09:53:35 2025)
7: 1 windows (created Thu Mar 6 09:57:18 2025)
Then How to attach the first ...
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Is there any problem with my code executing while I pressed some wrong keys on terminal?
I am new in using terminal and I am too scared in this environment. I log to an amazon server with ssh and execute a py program with tmux.
When I tried to detach pressing cntrl b ,release, d nothing ...
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What process modifies my PATH variable?
Something somewhere prepends my PATH variable and this causes the wrong python version to be loaded when in Tmux (but not in the base terminal). I have inspected all the files that get sourced at ...
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how to unbind Ctrl-R in Ubuntu with byobu tmux backend
My environment is as below.
Ubuntu 22.04
Gnome Terminal
Byoubu with tmux backend
bash with emacs command line editing
When I type Ctrl-r I am getting below error
tmux: unknown option -- B
usage: ...
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Tmux log file seems suspicious [closed]
I have switched from a none-Debian distribution to Ubuntu recently, however, I don't come to discover to make my precious Tmux config to work with my current Ubuntu setup, with that there are the a ...
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session of editor to restore
I have multiple terminals with vi editor session. If i have 5 windows, there will be 5 cscope with vi file. However, when boot to windows, I need to close it and restore it back. applications like ...
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Can't login to finish do-release-upgrade process
I ran sudo do-release-upgrade -d inside byobu inside Gnome Terminal using Remote Desktop, to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
It ran for a while and started asking the usual ...
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how to give access to my tmux session?
I create a session with which I can log in and out, but other users do not even see it, I tried to change the rights of the session, but nothing happened
artem@server:/home/stop$ tmux ls
no server ...
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Tmux config not work after run tmux kill-server
I have tmux config file at ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf with many UI and keymaps customizing. I don't know why it's not display the window name at the status bar. So I run "tmux kill-server". It ...
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How do I auto-start tmux, setting the status bar to a system-unique color?
I would like to have my machines setup so that everytime a shell is spawned, a tmux session is started.
Also, I normally log in to multiple SSH servers, and I would like for them to be setup the same.
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How to delete users who are logged in
We tried to remove them by killing the processes but they are still there.
This is how users appear
can't access root pts/18 tmux(1804832).%13
can't access root pts/19 tmux(1804832).%...
