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.
- -The latest version is tmux 1.7.
- -tmux uses a client-server model. The server holds multiple sessions and each -window is an independent entity which may be freely linked to multiple sessions, -moved between sessions and otherwise manipulated. Each session may be attached -to (display and accept keyboard input from) multiple clients.
- -tmux is intended to be a modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such -as GNU screen. Major features include:
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- A powerful, consistent, well-documented and easily scriptable command -interface. -
- A window may be split horizontally and vertically into panes. -
- Panes can be freely moved and resized, or arranged into preset -layouts. -
- Support for UTF-8 and 256-colour terminals. -
- Copy and paste with multiple buffers. -
- Interactive menus to select windows, sessions or clients. -
- Change the current window by searching for text in the target. -
- Terminal locking, manually or after a timeout. -
- A clean, easily extended, BSD-licensed codebase, under active -development. -
tmux is part of the OpenBSD base -system. The portable version is hosted on -SourceForge and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and AIX. -It depends on libevent 1.4 or 2.0 and a -terminfo implementation (normally ncurses).
- -A few people have written programs which can be used with tmux: -tmux-ruby, -tmuxinator, -tmux-applets and -teamocil. -There is a -book on tmux by Brian P Hogan.
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