Screenshot	Demo

Installation

Clone project and copy files to HOME

mkdir tmp_tmux
git clone https://gitlab.version.fz-juelich.de/chraibi1/tmux.git tmp_tmux
cp -r tmp_tmux/* ~
rm -r tmp_tmux
tmux

Nomenclatur

• Window: like tabs
• Pane: a window can be splited in sub-windows
• Ctrl: Control key
• Alt: Alt key
• Ctrl-a: type a while holding Ctrl

Sessions

from shell prompt

• tmux ls: list sessions
• tmux attach -t <num> or <name>: attach to session num or name
• tmux rename-session [-t current-name] [new-name]

Keystrokes

General

• Ctrl-a c: new window
• Ctrl-a ,: change name of the window
• Ctrl-a v: split vertically
• Ctrl-a h: split horizontally
• Ctrl-a z: full screen on selected pane
• Ctrl-a x: close windows (answer question with y)
• Ctrl-a [: enter text-mode to navigate the window (q to exit)
• Ctrl-a r: refresh tmux after changing ~/.tmux.conf

Navigation windows

• Ctrl-p: previous window
• Ctrl-n: next window
• Ctrl-arrow: navigate panes (up, down, left, right)
• Ctrl-number: select windo with number

Copy text

• Enter text-mode with Ctrl-a [
• Ctrl-space
• move with arrows to mark text
• Alt-w: copy
• Ctrl-a ]: paste

Search

• Enter text mode with Ctrl-[
• Ctrl-s: searching forwards
• Ctrl-r: searching backwards

Attach / Detach sessions

• Ctrl-a d: detach session
• To attach again to a detached session start tmux in a terminal as tmux attach