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 the CONTRIBUTING file before opening an issue.
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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