Questions tagged [tmux]
tmux is terminal multiplexer software, allowing users to work with terminals using multiple windows and panes, which can be created, removed, attached, and reattached as needed.
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SSH 'No route to host' only within tmux session
I began exploring tmux yesterday, and arrived at a very strange problem: From inside a tmux session, I can SSH into any server and my router – but not into a local server. Connecting from outside a ...
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Detected terminal width always smaller when first opening terminal compared to opening new tmux tabs
I have a few 'cosmetic' lines in my .bashrc file, which rely on detecting the current width (i.e. number of columns) on the terminal in order to work properly.
E.g., this one prints a nice 'banner' at ...
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vim-tmux-navigator doesn't seem to work in a docker container
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Seems like there is a question as to why I have this setup. Per company policy I'm developing on a remote machine. The machine is Amazon Linux 2, which is not upgradable. We will not be switching ...
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How can I have a remote SSH-like session that doesn't close due to connection failure?
I have a laptop from which I SSH into a remote machine every day. When the connection drops (e.g., because I'm taking my laptop from work to home and logging back on), all of my SSH sessions die. I ...
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Keep Tmux window list immovably centralised in the status line even when right status content changes width
I've started using gitmux by arainone when I discovered it from a question on displaying git status in the tmux status line.
Having installed and configured gitmux the output now appears on the right ...
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Why does "tmux send-keys" behave differently in a bash script?
Something strange is happening when I try to use tmux send-keys in a bash function, or a bash script, or even inside a file that I source.
I have reduced the problem to this: a file commands.txt with ...
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How to get tmux to send the right char sequence for Ctrl + Enter and Ctrl + Shift + Enter shortcuts?
I am trying to get the following keyboard shortcuts working in neovim inside a wezterm+zsh+tmux session.
Ctrl + Enter: create a newline below the cursor in insert mode and move the cursor there with ...
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Sending raw keys with tmux?
tmux has send-keys command that is very useful. One property of this command that it "does what you mean" and lets you e.g. send ENTER using tmux send-keys. This is perhaps a nice hack - but ...
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Why does tmux only allow scrolling copy mode?
Why cant I scroll in tmux before entering copy mode with ctrl-b [?
Apparently tmux does have a special integration just for iTerm2 (tmux -CC), but why isn't this default? (see Scroll in tmux but don&#...
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Tmux keybinding customization in tree mode
I use Halmak layout and try to setup tmux key bindings in a vim-like way, so that .aeo keys would behave like hjkl. It is easy to configure the root, prefix and copy-mode-vi key tables, but it seems ...
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How can I find where a command is being ran from during login on Debian 12?
When installing my server I installed neofetch, as one does. I also had it run whenever I logged into a shell.
Skip forward to today, when I’ve uninstalled neofetch in favour of fastfetch.
Now, when I ...
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tmux: Can't `bind-key` Ctrl+3 to '#'
The following is unable to bind the character "#" to pressing Ctrl+3 in tmux
# ~/.tmux.conf
unbind-key -T root C-3
bind-key -T root -N '#' C-3 send-keys '#'
# in a tmux session
tmux source-...
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Change pane size with iterm2 and apple script
I'm trying to operate on iTerm2 like tmux, so I started from itermocil script. I need a two small pane on the top, one large horizontal pane in the bottom, so I first added this layout
elif ...
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iterm2 tmux integration jumps to beginning of line when switching windows
I am using tmux integration for iterm2 (macos client sshing to linux server), and I am encountering an annoying behavior where the cursor jumps to the beginning of the line every time I switch tmux ...
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byobu won't cycle through search results
I'm having an inconsistent issue with byobu search for last several months. For some searches, it will only navigate to the first backwards result. I have not determined when this breaks or when it ...
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