Playing around with sessions, windows, and panes
So now that we have a high-level understanding, let's take a little tour of sessions, windows, and panes. Let's start totally fresh with a new terminal window and no existing tmux sessions. Start by creating a session named work:
$ tmux new-session -s work
You'll see a new session started with the name work. This session, currently, has a single window with a single pane.
Let's create another window. Recall that this is done by pressing <Prefix>, c (c for create). Now you have one session, two windows, and two panes. Each window has a single pane, as shown in the following screenshot:
Multiple sessions ...
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