Welcome to tmux!

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 release runs on FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux and OS X and may still run on Solaris and AIX.

tmux depends on libevent 2.x. Download it from:

http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

To build tmux from a release tarball, do:

$ ./configure && make
$ sudo make install

To get and build the latest from version control:

$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/tmux/tmux-code tmux
$ cd tmux
$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure && make

For more information see https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=200378 and http://git-scm.com. Patches should be sent by email to the mailing list at tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net.

For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. It can be viewed from the source tree with:

$ nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less

Some common questions are answered in the FAQ file and a more extensive (but slightly out of date) guide is available in the OpenBSD FAQ at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#tmux. A rough todo list is in the TODO file and some example configurations and a Vim syntax file are in the examples directory.

For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log files in the current directory.

tmux mailing lists are available. Visit:

https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=200378

Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most welcome. Please send by email to:

tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net

This file and the CHANGES, FAQ, TODO, and SYNCING files are licensed under the ISC license. Files under examples/ remain copyright their authors unless otherwise stated in the file but permission has been received to distribute them with tmux. All other files have a license and copyright notice at their start.