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Welcome to tmux!
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tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows)
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to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a
simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
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This 0.6 release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and OS X and may still run on
Solaris (although it hasn't been tested in a while). It is usable, although
there remain a number of missing features and some remaining bugs are expected.
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tmux consists of a server part and multiple clients. The server is created when
required and runs continuously unless killed by the user. Clients access the
server through a socket in /tmp. Multiple sessions may be created on a single
server and attached to a number of clients. Each session may then have a number
of windows and windows may be linked to a number of sessions. Commands are
available to create, rename and destroy windows and sessions; to attach and
detach sessions from client terminals; to set configuration options; and to
bind and unbind command keys (invoked preceded by a prefix key, by default
ctrl-b). Please see the tmux(1) man page for further information.
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The following is a summary of major features implemented in this version:
- Basic multiplexing, window switching, attaching and detaching.
- Window listing and renaming.
- Key binding.
- Handling of client terminal resize.
- Terminal emulation sufficient to handle most curses applications. Without
known issues are: emacs, irssi, mutt, ncmpc (resize problems are present in
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both tmux and screen), vim and various tools and games in the OpenBSD base
system.
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- A optional status line (enabled by default).
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- Window history and copy and paste.
- Support for VT100 line drawing characters.
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- A large command set.
- Vertical window splitting.
- Automatic server locking on inactivity.
- A configuration file.
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And major missing features:
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- Proper mouse support.
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- No support for programs changing termios(4) settings or other tty(4) ioctls.
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A more extensive, but rough, todo list is included in the TODO file.
tmux also depends on several features of the client terminal (TERM), if these
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are missing it may refuse to run, or not behave correctly. Known working are
TERM=screen (tmux in screen), xterm, xterm-color and rxvt. Note that TERM=xterm
does not support colour on OpenBSD. screen ignores this, tmux does not: use
xterm-color or rxvt for colour.
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tmux supports UTF-8. To use it, the utf8 option must be set on each window;
this may be turned on for all windows by setting it as a global option, see
tmux(1) and the FAQ file. In addition, when starting tmux or attaching to an
existing session from a UTF-8-capable terminal, the -u flag must be specified.
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There are the following known issues:
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- cons25 on the FreeBSD console doesn't support scroll region (cs) (or lies
about support, I'm not totally clear which). This is a pity but emulating cs
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is nontrivial and as most modern vt220-based software terminals support it,
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currently there are better things to work one. Diffs or ideas how to cleanly
emulate cs are welcome.
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For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log
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files in the current directory.
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The CVS HEAD version of tmux often has additional features from the release
versions; if interested, testing it is encouraged. It can be obtained by
anonymous CVS from SourceForge:
$ cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@tmux.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/tmux co tmux
If running CVS HEAD, please note it is development code and there may be bugs
and undocumented features; please read the CHANGES file for information.
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Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most
welcome. Please email:
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nicm@users.sf.net
-- Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sf.net>
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$Id: NOTES,v 1.39 2009-01-14 22:51:24 nicm Exp $