Tmux

Tmux, similarly to screen, is a program which can run a process in background with an option to "attach" and see the process output at any time. Unlike GNU/screen, tmux is licensed under the BSD license and is actively maintained.

Tmux has a detailed statusbar by default.

To start tmux, tmux

Some useful shortcuts let you control the windows

• ^B C - create new window
• ^B X - kills current pane
• ^B D - detach

Tmux also supports window split:

• ^B " - split horizontally
• ^B % - split vertically
• ^B (up|right|down|left) - switch to another pane in the split

To open the detached session, tmux attach

External links

• tmux cheatsheet
• tmux at archwiki - contains bash scripts to start/detach tmux when logging in/out
• homepge
• screenshot
• tmux @ bsd faq