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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
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simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.
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This 0.2 release should be considered a beta release. It runs on OpenBSD,
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FreeBSD and Linux, but has many missing features and is expected to have a good
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number of bugs.
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tmux consists of a server part and multiple clients. The server is created
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when required and runs continuously unless killed by the user. Clients access
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the server through a socket in /tmp. Multiple sessions may be created on a
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single server and attached to a number of clients. Each session may then
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have a number of windows and windows may be linked to a number of sessions.
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Commands are available to create, rename and destroy windows and sessions; to
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attach and detach sessions from client terminals; to set configuration options;
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and to bind and unbind command keys (invoked preceded by a prefix key, by
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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:
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- Basic multiplexing, window switching, attaching and detaching.
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- Window listing and renaming.
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- Key binding.
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- Handling of client terminal resize.
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- Terminal emulation sufficient to handle most curses applications. Without
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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
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system.
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- A optional status line (enabled by default).
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- Window history and copy and paste.
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- Support for VT100 line drawing characters.
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- A basic 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.
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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. It is possible to
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emulate some of these but tmux does not do this at present. Known working are
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TERM=screen (tmux in screen), xterm, xterm-color and rxvt. Note that tmux
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(and screen) relies on an AX term capability to detect if the terminal
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supports "default" (transparent) foreground and background colours. On OpenBSD,
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TERM=xterm and TERM=xterm-color lack this; TERM=rxvt does have it and works fine
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at least with the aterm and rxvt terminal emulators.
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Note that TERM=xterm does not support colour on OpenBSD. screen ignores this,
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tmux does not: use xterm-color or rxvt for colour.
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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
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support, I'm not totally clear which). This is a pity but emulating cs is non-
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trivial and as most modern vt220-based software terminals support it currently
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I have better things to work one. Diffs or ideas how to cleanly emulate cs
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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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Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most
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welcome. Please email:
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nicm@users.sf.net
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-- Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sf.net>
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$Id: NOTES,v 1.36 2008-08-28 17:45:24 nicm Exp $
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