#Tmuxinator new side pane how to#

So installation should be as easy as: $ sudo apt-get install tmux In recent Linux distributions you should have a tmux package available.

#Tmuxinator new side pane how to#

There are even more things you could do with it, but let us rather have a look on how to use it! Installation and Setup This way it is easy to kick off your working environment with all the stuff you need to be productive right away. You can define the layout of your tmux sessions and execute commands when starting it. Furthermore you could put your tmux session on a remote server and have a persistent working environment at hand everywhere.

This allows to use it for (remote) pair programming. It is built with a client/server architecture. Here is an example session, used to work on my PhD thesis: Thus it can be used via ssh on a remote server without a GUI. The benefit of tmux here is, that it works within a terminal. This could also be achieved by using a window manager with tiling support like xmonad or KWin. It’s most obvious use is to manage multiple terminals. Tmux simply stands for “terminal multiplexer” and is an alternative to the well known screen. Handling lots of separate terminal windows often is not the most efficient thing. There is a lot of stuff going on there!Īll these tools want to be tamed, to achieve your most productive work flow.

If you are a web developer for example, you want to edit files, have a look on your webserver logs, monitor automated tests, handle your git repo and so on. If you are using lots of command line tools (being a cool guy, you should!), you most probably have a need to organize all this stuff.