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tmux

  • Try dvtm
  • Depends on libevent and netbsd-curses; libev and libuev are not supported
  • cgroups, sixel, systemd, utempter and utf8proc support is disabled by default
  • Not passing --with-TERM lets tmux default to screen which we don’t want as tmux-256color is better
  • Check /usr/share/doc/tmux/examples/tmux.conf and install tmux.conf
  • set -as terminal-features ",*:RGB" fixes broken colors
  • tmux originated from openbsd
  • tmux does better multiplexing compared to dtach, mtm and built-in terminal multiplexers (e.g. wezterm)
  • tmux -u enables utf8 support and without it unicode glyphs will appear as underscores if the environment does not support utf8
  • tmux server causes issues with locales and missing XDG variables (e.g. XDG_RUNTIME_DIR)
  • Remember to set $TERM in chroot if tmux is being used