{"id":440,"date":"2018-07-18T20:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pjsen.eu\/?p=440"},"modified":"2018-12-26T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T10:14:48","slug":"how-to-run-tmux-in-git-bash-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pjsen.eu\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"How to run Tmux in GIT Bash on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tmux running under Git Bash default terminal with two shell processes<\/p><\/div>\n

I know everyone uses Cmder<\/a>, but it didn’t work for me. It hung a few times, it has way too many options, it has issues sending signal to kill a process. I gave up on using it. I work with carefully configured default Windows console and believe it or not, it serves the purpose. I also know you can use Windows Subsystem For Linux<\/a> under Windows 10, which is truly amazing, but I am just talking about the cases where you need standard Git for Windows installation.<\/p>\n

When I worked with Unix I liked GNU Screen<\/a>, which is terminal multiplexer. It gives you a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to create separate shell processes under the same terminal window. The problem is, it is not available under GIT Bash. But it turns out, its alternative — Tmux<\/a> is.<\/p>\n

I did a little research and have found that GIT Bash uses MINGW compilation of GNU tools. It uses only selected ones. You can install the whole distribution of the tools from https:\/\/www.msys2.org\/<\/a> and run a command to install Tmux<\/em>. And then copy some files to installation folder of Git. This is what you do:<\/p>\n

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  1. Install before-mentioned msys2 package and run bash shell<\/li>\n
  2. Install tmux using the following command: pacman -S tmux<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. Go to msys2 directory, in my case it is C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin<\/code><\/li>\n
  4. Copy tmux.exe<\/code> and msys-event-2-1-4.dll<\/code> to your Git for Windows directory, mine is C:\\Program Files\\Git\\usr\\bin<\/code>. Please note, that in future, you can see this file with the version number higher than 2-1-4<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And you are ready to go. Please note, that I do this on 64-bit installations of Git and MSYS <\/strong>. Now when you run Git Bash enter tmux<\/code>. My most frequently used commands are:<\/p>\n