tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or +windows), each running a separate program, 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.
+ +The latest version is tmux 1.7.
+ +tmux uses a client-server model. The server holds multiple sessions and each +window is an independent entity which may be freely linked to multiple sessions, +moved between sessions and otherwise manipulated. Each session may be attached +to (display and accept keyboard input from) multiple clients.
+ +tmux is intended to be a modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such +as GNU screen. Major features include:
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- A powerful, consistent, well-documented and easily scriptable command +interface. +
- A window may be split horizontally and vertically into panes. +
- Panes can be freely moved and resized, or arranged into preset +layouts. +
- Support for UTF-8 and 256-colour terminals. +
- Copy and paste with multiple buffers. +
- Interactive menus to select windows, sessions or clients. +
- Change the current window by searching for text in the target. +
- Terminal locking, manually or after a timeout. +
- A clean, easily extended, BSD-licensed codebase, under active +development. +
tmux is part of the OpenBSD base +system. The portable version is hosted on +SourceForge and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and AIX. +It depends on libevent 1.4 or 2.0 and a +terminfo implementation (normally ncurses).
+ +A few people have written programs which can be used with tmux: +tmux-ruby, +tmuxinator, +tmux-applets and +teamocil. +There is a +book on tmux by Brian P Hogan.
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