If you kill all the windows in a tmux session, it will kill the overall session and return you to the normal terminal. d: Detach tmux (exit back to normal terminal) There are many tmux commands available, but here are the only ones you need to get started: c: Create a new window (appears in status bar)

Note that you must let go of the prefix before entering the command key. By default, tmux uses Ctrl b as the prefix key. Once you’re in tmux, you can run a command by entering a prefix key followed by a command key. From here we can start running tmux commands to manage terminal windows and sessions. This looks pretty much identical to the regular terminal, except there’s the green status bar at the bottom. Once it’s installed, you can create a new tmux session simply by running: $ tmux To install tmux, you can run sudo apt-get install tmux on Linux with apt-get or brew install tmux on a Mac with homebrew.

Enables session sharing (great for pair programming).

Keeps windows and panes in a session (which stays alive even when the internet disconnects).

Enables multiple windows and panes within a single terminal window.

You can solve these issues by using tmux, a command line tool which provides the following key features: Furthermore, if your internet connection ever drops, you’ll lose all your ssh sessions and have to start everything up again.

When you open a new tab, it won’t be connected to the remote machine, which means you would have to ssh and navigate to the appropriate directory each time. Let’s say you’re using vim to edit code on a remote computer using ssh, and you want to open a new terminal tab to start a development server.

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