tmux

Welcome to tmux!

tmux is a terminal multiplexer, it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs such as GNU screen.

This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris.

tmux depends on libevent 2.x. Download it from:

http://libevent.org

It also depends on ncurses, available from:

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

To build and install tmux from a release tarball, use:

$ ./configure && make
$ sudo make install

tmux can use the utempter library to update utmp(5), if it is installed - run configure with --enable-utempter to enable this.

To get and build the latest from version control:

$ git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
$ cd tmux
$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure && make

(Note that this requires at least a working C compiler, make, autoconf, automake, pkg-config as well as libevent and ncurses libraries and headers.)

For more information see http://git-scm.com. Patches should be sent by email to the mailing list at tmux-users@googlegroups.com or submitted through GitHub at https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues.

For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. It can be viewed from the source tree with:

$ nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less

A small example configuration in example_tmux.conf.

And a bash(1) completion file at:

https://github.com/imomaliev/tmux-bash-completion

For debugging, running tmux with -v or -vv will generate server and client log files in the current directory.

tmux mailing lists are available. For general discussion and bug reports:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-users

And for Git commit emails:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-git

Subscribe by sending an email to tmux-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most welcome. Please send by email to:

tmux-users@googlegroups.com

This file and the CHANGES, FAQ, SYNCING and TODO files are licensed under the ISC license. All other files have a license and copyright notice at their start.

-- Nicholas Marriott nicholas.marriott@gmail.com