


Studying the tmux man page will enable you to maximize the benefits derived from its use. If this article piques your interest in tmux, I highly recommend getting this book.Īnother excellent source of information about tmux is its long man page. I first learned about tmux from the excellent book "tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development" by Brian Hogan at. Both maintain the state of sessions so the user can pick up where they left off by reconnecting and reattaching to the session. One benefit of both tmux and screen is realized when working on remote machines where network communication can fail. Tmux is an alternative to an older, similar program named "screen". It is highly configurable and scriptable. tmux is short for "terminal multiplexer." It dramatically expands what can be done with terminal windows. This article provides an overview of tmux. By Mark Volkmann, Partner at Object Computing, Inc.
