Tmux
#Welcome to tmux!
tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals 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.
This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, macOS and Solaris.
#Dependencies
tmux depends on libevent 2.x, available from this page.
It also depends on ncurses, available from this page.
To build tmux, a C compiler (for example gcc or clang), make, pkg-config and a suitable yacc (yacc or bison) are needed.
#Installation
#Binary packages
Some platforms provide binary packages for tmux, although these are sometimes out of date. Examples are listed on this page.
#From release tarball
To build and install tmux from a release tarball, use:
./configure && make
sudo make install
tmux can use the utempter library to update utmp(5), if it is installed - run
configure with --enable-utempter to enable this.
For more detailed instructions on building and installing tmux, see this page.
#From version control
To get and build the latest from version control - note that this requires
autoconf, automake and pkg-config:
git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git cd tmux sh autogen.sh ./configure && make
#Contributing
Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most welcome. Please send by email to:
Or open a GitHub issue or pull request. Please read this document before opening an issue.
There is a list of suggestions for contributions. Please feel free to ask on the mailing list if you're thinking of working on something or need further information.
#Documentation
For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. View it from the source tree with:
nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less
A small example configuration is in example_tmux.conf.
And a bash(1) completion file at:
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/main/completions-core/tmux.bash
For debugging, run tmux with -v or -vv to generate server and client log
files in the current directory.
#Support
The tmux mailing list for general discussion and bug reports is:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-users
Subscribe by sending an email to: