Installation

Package Managers:

# macOS
brew install tmux           # Homebrew
port install tmux           # MacPorts

# Linux
apt install tmux            # Debian/Ubuntu
yum install tmux            # RHEL/CentOS
dnf install tmux            # Fedora
pacman -S tmux              # Arch
zypper install tmux         # openSUSE

From Source:

wget <https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/3.3a/tmux-3.3a.tar.gz>
tar xzvf tmux-3.3a.tar.gz
cd tmux-3.3a
./configure
make && sudo make install

Session Management

CLI Commands:

tmux                        # Start new session
tmux new -s name            # Start named session
tmux ls                     # List sessions
tmux a                      # Attach to last session
tmux a -t name              # Attach to named session
tmux kill-session -t name   # Kill specific session
tmux kill-server            # Kill all sessions

Keybindings:

• Ctrl+b d - Detach from session
• Ctrl+b s - List/switch sessions
• Ctrl+b $ - Rename session

Windows (Tabs)

• Ctrl+b c - Create window
• Ctrl+b w - List windows
• Ctrl+b n - Next window
• Ctrl+b p - Previous window
• Ctrl+b 0-9 - Go to window number