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, OS X and Solaris.
tmux depends on libevent 2.x, available from this page.
It also depends on ncurses, available from this page.
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.
To get and build the latest from version control:
git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git cd tmux sh autogen.sh ./configure && make
(Note that this requires at least a working C compiler, make, autoconf, automake, pkg-config as well as libevent and ncurses libraries and headers.)
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 TODO list which explains some ideas for tmux not yet developed. Please feel free to ask for clarifications on the mailing list if you're thinking of working on these or need further information.
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/imomaliev/tmux-bash-completion
For debugging, run tmux with -v or -vv to generate server and client log files in the current directory.
The tmux mailing list for general discussion and bug reports is:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-users
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