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:
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/latest
It also depends on ncurses, available from:
https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/
To build tmux, a C compiler (for example gcc or clang), make, pkg-config and a
suitable yacc (yacc or bison) are needed.
* Installation
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 - note that this requires
autoconf, automake and pkg-config:
$ 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:
tmux-users@googlegroups.com
Or open a GitHub issue or pull request.
* Documentation
For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. View it from the
source tree with:
$ nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less
A small example configuration is in example_tmux.conf.
Other documentation is available in the wiki:
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki
Also see the tmux FAQ at:
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/FAQ
A bash(1) completion file is at:
https://github.com/imomaliev/tmux-bash-completion
For debugging, run tmux with -v and -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:
tmux-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com
* License
This file and the CHANGES files are licensed under the ISC license. All other
files have a license and copyright notice at their start.
