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I can't get tmux to work inside an SSH session to a Windows machine with Cygwin:
USER@HOST ~ $ tmux
open terminal failed: not a terminal
GNU/Screen is working fine. I understand tmux is a bit pickier, it's also much nicer to work with. Any way to get tmux to work?
kqw
Posted 2015-09-01T09:31:33.087
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Due to very limited support of Windows console API in cygwin, you have to run mintty.exe which emulates pty terminal. However, you will lose ability to run many other Windows console applications which were not designed for cygwin, but use Windows console API directly.
Maximus
Posted 2015-09-01T09:31:33.087
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You can, if you have the "screen" package installed. You can call "screen -L", from bash, before running tmux. Or you can call it from cmd or from where you want to run the bash, bash.exe --login -c "screen -L", and after that "tmux".
Daniel Frujina
Posted 2015-09-01T09:31:33.087
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minttylooks interesting but seems a bit buggy on my system. Inside RDP it opens buttmuxdoesn't really work (it shows up but can't do anything inside). And over SSHminttydoesn't do much at all. – kqw – 2015-09-02T10:22:50.627These are cygwin limitations. Why do you want to use tmux at all? – Maximus – 2015-09-02T13:04:42.053
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I mean, what features of tmux would you like to use? Do you run tmux on local or remote machine? – Maximus – 2015-09-02T20:15:31.520
Running tmux on remote machine. I want to open multiple windows within 1 SSH session, I want to split the screen and I want to be able to reconnect a day later to things I was doing. GNU/Screen can do this but it's just not as smooth. – kqw – 2015-09-03T07:39:09.460