Thursday, September 22, 2011

tmux basic

Category: — SkyHi @ Thursday, September 22, 2011
A comparison of the features (or more-so just a table of notes for accessing some of those features) for GNU screen and BSD-licensed tmux.
This document released for use under the PPL license available at http://code.dayid.org/ppl/ppl.txt
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The formatting here is simple enough to understand (I would hope). ^ means ctrl+, so ^x is ctrl+x. M- means meta (generally left-alt or escape)+, so M-x is left-alt+x
Action tmux screen
start a new session tmux OR
tmux new OR
tmux new-session		 screen
re-attach a detached session tmux attach OR
tmux attach-session		 screen -r
re-attach an attached session (detaching it from elsewhere) tmux attach -d OR
tmux attach-session -d		 screen -dr
re-attach an attached session (keeping it attached elsewhere) tmux attach OR
tmux attach-session		 screen -x
detach from currently attached session ^b d OR
^b :detach		 ^a ^d OR
^a :detach
rename-window to newname ^b , OR
^b :rename-window 		^a A
list windows ^b w ^a w
list windows in chooseable menu
^a "
go to window # ^b # ^a #
go to last-active window ^b l ^a l
go to next window ^b n ^a n
go to previous window ^b p ^a p
see keybindings ^b ? ^a ?
list sessions ^b s OR
tmux ls OR
tmux list-sessions		 screen -ls
toggle visual bell
^a ^g
create another shell ^b c ^a c
exit current shell ^d ^d
split pane horizontally ^b "
split pane vertically ^b %
switch to another pane ^b o
kill the current pane ^b x OR (logout/^D)
close other panes except the current one ^b !
swap location of panes ^b ^o
show time ^b t
show numeric values of panes^b q





Summary:

Ctrl-b c Create new window
Ctrl-b d Detach current client
Ctrl-b l Move to previously selected window
Ctrl-b n Move to the next window
Ctrl-b p Move to the previous window
Ctrl-b & Kill the current window
Ctrl-b , Rename the current window
Ctrl-b % Split the current window into two panes
Ctrl-b q Show pane numbers (used to switch between panes)
Ctrl-b o Switch to the next pane
Ctrl-b ? List all keybindings

Ctrl-b n (Move to the next window)
Ctrl-b p (Move to the previous window)
Ctrl-b l (Move to the previously selected window)
Ctrl-b w (List all windows / window numbers)
Ctrl-b (Move to the specified window number, the default bindings are from 0 – 9)

Ctrl-b % (Split the window vertically)
Ctrl-b : “split-window” (Split window horizontally)
Ctrl-b : “break-pane” (Make pane its own window)
Ctrl-b o (Goto next pane)
Ctrl-b q (Show pane numbers, when the numbers show up type the key to goto that pane)
Ctrl-b { (Move the current pane left)
Ctrl-b } (Move the current pane right)

Ctrl-b : resize-pane (By default it resizes the current pane down)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -U (Resizes the current pane upward)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -L (Resizes the current pane left)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -R (Resizes the current pane right)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane 20 (Resizes the current pane down by 20 cells)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -U 20 (Resizes the current pane upward by 20 cells)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -L 20 (Resizes the current pane left by 20 cells)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -R 20 (Resizes the current pane right by 20 cells)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -t 2 20 (Resizes the pane with the id of 2 down by 20 cells)
Ctrl-b : resize-pane -t -L 20 (Resizes the pane with the id of 2 left by 20 cells)


REFERENCES
http://dayid.org/os/notes/tm.html 
http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/06/28/tmux-the-terminal-multiplexer/
http://wiki.frugalware.org/index.php/Tmux