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Getting Started with tmux

By : Victor Quinn
Book Image

Getting Started with tmux

By: Victor Quinn

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Getting Started with tmux
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Playing around with sessions, windows, and panes


So now that we have a high-level understanding, let's take a little tour of sessions, windows, and panes. Let's start totally fresh with a new terminal window and no existing tmux sessions. Start by creating a session named work:

$ tmux new-session -s work

You'll see a new session started with the name work. This session, currently, has a single window with a single pane.

Let's create another window. Recall that this is done by pressing <Prefix>, c (c for create). Now you have one session, two windows, and two panes. Each window has a single pane, as shown in the following screenshot:

Multiple sessions

Now let's see what it's like working with more than one session. Let's first detach the current session. Recall that in order to do so, we'll press <Prefix>, d (d for detach).

Now that the work session is detached, we are back at a command line, and your screen should be similar to the next screenshot. Instead of reattaching the work...