How do I resize the ‘usable area’ of a tmux session?

I'm using a ‘session group’, to keep multiple OS-level, window-managed terminal windows open to different tmux ‘windows’ (so they share a default working-directory, tmux settings, etceteras.) Those Terminal windows are different sizes.

Normally, from a larger Terminal, I can do the following to start a new command:

:new-window vim

However, if I ever switch to a different pane with that new, larger Terminal window, I am foreverafter stuck with this, when I switch back:

I have to kill the entire session, create an entirely new session, and link it to the session-group again, using tmux new-session -t <blah>, to restore the full terminal-width.

Is there any other way to restore / change / set the ‘available width’ of a session (or window, idk)?

ELLIOTTCABLE

Posted 2015-02-20T18:49:05.167

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have you enabled the aggressive-resize option? also, if two different sized clients are attached at the same time, the larger screen'd client will be forced to the smaller screen'd client. try detaching others when attaching with a new client. – Daniel – 2015-02-20T18:56:08.813

1Problem is, they're attached to different sessions. That's exactly what I'm trying to circumvent; the problem isn't at attach-time, it's only when I switch windows. – ELLIOTTCABLE – 2015-02-20T18:57:13.037

Also, set aggressive-resize solves it! Add that as a real answer, and I'll give you an accept. (= – ELLIOTTCABLE – 2015-02-20T18:58:17.407

I thought that might help, glad it worked. – Daniel – 2015-02-20T19:08:23.493

How do I resize the ‘usable area’ of a tmux session?

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