tmux 3: Productive Mouse-Free Development

Working with Panes

Having programs in separate windows is fine for programs you don’t mind having out of the way. But with tmux, you can divide a single session into panes so you can run multiple programs on the screen at once.

Create a new tmux session called “panes” so you can experiment with how panes work. Exit any existing tmux sessions and create a new one like this:

$ tmux new -s panes

You can split windows vertically or horizontally. Let’s split the window in half vertically first, and then horizontally, creating one large pane on the left and two smaller panes on the right, as shown in the following image:

In the tmux ...