Later we will prvide a grafical view for this as well mycomputer: You can imagine the structure as follow: host/client: Session Window Pane TreeĪs listed mentined above, sessions, windows and panes are nested on into the other. Once all sessions are killed, tmux exits.Įach session is persistent and will survive accidental disconnection (such as ssh(1) connection timeout) or intentional detaching (with the ‘C-b d’ key strokes). Each session has one or more windows linked to it.Ī window occupies the entire screen and may be split into rectangular panes, each of which is a separate pseudo terminal (the pty(4) manual page documents the technical details of pseudo termi‐ nals).Īny number of tmux instances may connect to the same session, and any number of windows may be present in the same session. A status line at the bottom of the screen shows information on the current session and is used to enter interactive commands.Ī session is a single collection of pseudo terminals under the management of tmux. When tmux is started it creates a new session with a single window and displays it on screen.

tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen.

Multible sessions with different configuraitons.

Tmux split