Recently I’ve been experimenting with using tmux to manage my terminal usage. Many people are fans of the venerable screen, but since I’m mostly working with embedded systems this isn’t so applicable to me. Whilst I don’t believe that I’ve got the perfect setup (yet) I thought that I would write this down for others to comment on.

Since there’s a number of good tutorials out there for getting up and running with tmux this one especially, I’ll leave much of the details to them.

Installing

There’s not a lot of dependancies required for tmux, so a simple yum command does the trick of installing it:

# yum install tmux

On my clean FC16 machine, the only dependancy it brought in was libevent.

Configuring

There is only one configuration file needed, and it’s very simple and easy. Here’s what mine looks like: