0 to 9: Move to the window number specified.Ctrl+B, and then ?: Display Help page in tmux.We’ve left the images of the terminal windows here at the default size so you can see the information. In that case, the loss of one line for the status bar isn’t much of an issue. Of course, you’d normally expand your terminal window to make using a terminal multiplexer worthwhile. On the plus side, you won’t lose a line of terminal window real estate.

(Unless you configure your own status bar.) You have to fly blind and rely on your wits to know what’s going on, which takes a bit of practice. The screen command doesn’t give you a status bar by default. Each time you create a new window in a tmux session, its window number and the name of the program running in it are added to the status bar. The asterisk (*) means this is the window you’re looking at. If you run a program, its name will appear here. The only process running in this session is bash. 0:bash*: The 0 indicates this is the first window in this session.We cover how you can give meaningful names to sessions below. By default, they’re numbered, starting with zero. The left side shows the following session-related information: The right side of the status bar shows the hostname, and the time and date. The terminal window will show a status bar when you’re in a tmux session. To start tmux, just type it and hit Enter: tmux On Manjaro you can use pacman: sudo pacman -Sy tmux To install tmux on Ubuntu, type the following: sudo apt-get install tmux While screen is generally installed by default on popular Linux distributions, tmux isn’t. RELATED: How to Use Linux's screen Command Installing tmux We’ll cover that when we get to it, and see if tmux fares any better.

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