What’s Next?

In this chapter, we covered the very basic usage of tmux sessions, panes, windows, and commands, but there’s a lot more we can explore.

By pressing Prefix ?, you can get a list of all predefined tmux keybindings and the associated commands these trigger.

As you work with tmux, think about how you can create different environments for your work. If you’re monitoring servers, you could use tmux panes to create a dashboard that shows your various monitoring scripts and log files.

With the basics under our belt, let’s put together a custom configuration we can use for the rest of our work.

For Future Reference

Creating Sessions

CommandDescription

tmux new-session

Creates a new session without a name. Can be shortened to tmux new or simply ...

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