Welcome to tmux!

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created,
accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a
screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

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

Dependencies

tmux depends on libevent 2.x, available from this
page.

It also depends on ncurses, available
from this page.

To build tmux, a C compiler (for example gcc or clang), make, pkg-config and a
suitable yacc (yacc or bison) are needed.

Installation

Binary packages

Some platforms provide binary packages for tmux, although these are sometimes
out of date. Examples are listed on
this page.

From release tarball

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

~~~bash
./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.

For more detailed instructions on building and installing tmux, see
this page.

From version control

To get and build the latest from version control - note that this requires
autoconf, automake and pkg-config:

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

Contributing

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

[email protected]

Or open a GitHub issue or pull request. Please read [this
document](CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening an issue.

There is a list of suggestions for contributions.
Please feel free to ask on the mailing list if you're thinking of working on something or need
further information.

Documentation

For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. View it from the
source tree with:

~~~bash
nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less
~~~

A small example configuration is in example_tmux.conf.

And a bash(1) completion file at:

https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/main/completions-core/tmux.bash

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

Support

The tmux mailing list for general discussion and bug reports is:

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

Subscribe by sending an email to:

[email protected]

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