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Getting Started with tmux

You're reading from   Getting Started with tmux Maximize your productivity by accessing several terminal sessions from a single window using tmux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783985166
Length 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Victor Quinn Victor Quinn
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Preface 1. Jump Right In 2. Configuring tmux FREE CHAPTER 3. Sessions, Windows, and Panes 4. Manipulating Text 5. Diving Deeper 6. tmux for SSH, Pair Programming, and More 7. Using Other Tools with tmux A. Appendix Index

Using wemux to ease multiuser experience


Another fantastic utility built by the community is wemux. It seeks to simplify the multiuser experience in tmux. As we saw in the last chapter, setting tmux up for pair programming is an awesome feature of tmux. It builds upon that experience, making it easier to configure and adds some very useful functionality.

Jump on over to the wemux GitHub page to get started and install wemux:

https://github.com/zolrath/wemux

If you are in an active tmux session, detach it before proceeding with <Prefix>, d.

Now let's jump into wemux. From your terminal, run the following command:

$ wemux start

Boom! But wait, you may say that this looks exactly like tmux. You would be right, wemux is a wrapper around tmux so it is the tmux you know and love with some special sauce added to facilitate some of the multi-user concepts.

From your command line, run the following command:

$ wemux users

The output of this command can be seen in the following screenshot:

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