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@ -4,19 +4,18 @@ tmux is a "terminal multiplexer", it enables a number of terminals (or windows)
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.
This 0.2 release should be considered a beta release. It runs on OpenBSD,
FreeBSD and Linux, but has many missing features and is expected to have a good
number of bugs.
This 0.5 runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and OS X and is usable, although there
remain a number of missing features and some remaining bugs are expected.
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.
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.
The following is a summary of major features implemented in this version:
@ -41,24 +40,23 @@ And major missing features:
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
are missing it may refuse to run, or not behave correctly. It is possible to
emulate some of these but tmux does not do this at present. Known working are
TERM=screen (tmux in screen), xterm, xterm-color and rxvt. Note that tmux
(and screen) relies on an AX term capability to detect if the terminal
supports "default" (transparent) foreground and background colours. On OpenBSD,
TERM=xterm and TERM=xterm-color lack this; TERM=rxvt does have it and works fine
at least with the aterm and rxvt terminal emulators.
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.
Note that TERM=xterm does not support colour on OpenBSD. screen ignores this,
tmux does not: use xterm-color or rxvt for colour.
tmux supports UTF-8. To use it, the utf8 option must be set on each window; this
may be turned on by default by setting the utf8-default option. In addition, when
starting tmux or attaching to an existing session from a UTF-8-capable terminal,
the -u flag must be specified.
There are the following known issues:
- 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 is non-
trivial and as most modern vt220-based software terminals support it currently
I have better things to work one. Diffs or ideas how to cleanly emulate cs
are welcome.
- 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
is non- trivial and as most modern vt220-based software terminals support it,
currently there are better things to work one. Diffs or ideas how to cleanly
emulate cs are welcome.
For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log
files in the current directory.
@ -70,4 +68,4 @@ welcome. Please email:
-- Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sf.net>
$Id: NOTES,v 1.36 2008-08-28 17:45:24 nicm Exp $
$Id: NOTES,v 1.37 2008-11-17 18:35:27 nicm Exp $