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How to run command python3 -m http.server 8001 in the current pane, then run another HTTP server in the split pane in tmux?
Like this, but this not working.
tmux run "python3 -m http.server 8001" \; splitw "python3 -m http.server 8002"

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Change tmux key-binding for bash script

We do have a bash script, which we can run on a cluster access node, that executes htop on all cluster child nodes, in order for us to monitor the whole cluster at once.
Now my question is, whether, there is a way to bind Ctrl-C or q for this script, without having to use the tmux prefix. The idea is, that this would make the script behave very similar to the regular htop command (which uses the q key binding to quit), and other users would not have to dive into the specifics of how to use tmux, when wanting to quit the window.
I am aware, that there is a way to change the behaviour using the .tmux.conf file. However, we do not want to set these keybinding globally, but only for this single script.
The command bash script looks like this:
tmux new -s logs_htop -d ssh-run htop 1
tmux select-pane -T 'cn01'
tmux splitw -v -p 50 -t logs_htop:0.0 ssh-run htop 5
tmux select-pane -T 'cn05'
tmux splitw -h -p 75 -t logs_htop:0.0 ssh-run htop 2
tmux select-pane -T 'cn02'
tmux splitw -h -p 66 -t logs_htop:0.1 ssh-run htop 3
tmux select-pane -T 'cn03'
tmux splitw -h -p 50 -t logs_htop:0.2 ssh-run htop 4
tmux select-pane -T 'cn04'
tmux splitw -h -p 75 -t logs_htop:0.4 ssh-run htop 6
tmux select-pane -T 'cn06'
tmux splitw -h -p 66 -t logs_htop:0.5 ssh-run htop 7
tmux select-pane -T 'cn07'
tmux splitw -h -p 50 -t logs_htop:0.6 "watch squeue -al"
tmux select-pane -T 'squeue'
tmux attach -t logs_htop
Yes, this is possible by connecting to a different tmux socket with a custom tmux config file.
First, create your custom tmux keybind in a separate conf file:
mkdir -p /etc/tmux
echo "bind-key -n C-c kill-session" > /etc/tmux/tmux-logs-htop.conf
# do not recommend q as htop is context-sensitive and q does not *always* mean quit
echo "bind-key -n q kill-session" >> /etc/tmux/tmux-logs-htop.conf
Next, create your custom tmux server:
tmux -L logs_htop -f /etc/tmux/tmux-logs-htop.conf
Lastly, edit your script to prefix every command with the particular socket / tmux server the commands are going to:
tmux -L logs_htop new -s logs_htop -d ssh-run htop 1
...
From man tmux:
-L socket-name
tmux stores the server socket in a directory under TMUX_TMPDIR or /tmp if it is unset.
The default socket is named default. This option allows a different socket name to be
specified, allowing several independent tmux servers to be run. Unlike -S a full path is
not necessary: the sockets are all created in the same directory.

How to send-keys to remote ssh tmux session running inside a local tmux session?

From my local tmux session I start multiple remote tmux sessions with ssh.
Each remote machine occupied one window locally.
Unfortunately each one of these windows is considered one pane even if the remote tmux session has multiple panes.
For example. If I have this setup locally:
Window 1: general window not ssh-ed into anywhere.
Window 2: is an ssh into a remote tmux session that has 6 panes in first window and a second window.
If from window 1 locally I do:
tmux send-keys -t 2.6 "ls" C-m;
the "ls" wont get executed in window 2 pane 6, but it will be in window 2 in whatever pane is selected at the time.
Is there a way to specify which pane the command goes to on the remote session?
For reference I have this setup in my tmux that gets referenced locally and remotely:
bind -T root F12 \
set prefix None \;\
set key-table off \;\
set status-style "fg=colour245,bg=colour238" \;\
if -F '#{pane_in_mode}' 'send-keys -X cancel' \;\
refresh-client -S \;\
bind -T off F12 \
set -u prefix \;\
set -u key-table \;\
set -u status-style \;\
refresh-client -S

How can I create multiple tmux sessions containing windows from command line

I am trying to write a template script for a development session using tmux. So i just need to run this script for opening a new dev environment. Each session will have multiple windows - say two. First window(Window1) can be created while creating the detached session as:
tmux new-session -s $TMUX_SESSION_NAME -d -n Window1
(Here TMUX_SESSION_NAME is the argument passed to the script to name the session).
However, how can I create another window under the same session?
Note that I can create it as below but that messes up when creating another session. Although tmux ls shows each session having 2 windows each, the second session contains all the env settings of the first session(Both are for completely different projects)
tmux new-window -n Window2
tmux attach -t $TMUX_SESSION_NAME
I suspect both/all sessions go under the same /tmp/tmux-SOME_ID/default socket and hence this problem.
Note that the first time i start a dev session all is good with both windows.
Any ideas?
TL;DR: probably with something like
tmux new-window -t $TMUX_SESSION_NAME
tmux rename-window -t $TMUX_SESSION_NAME:1 'second'
More info (my configuration):
Here's what I use to start my tmux sessions. The argument to the function would be the name of the session you want to create.
If this does not answer your question, please comment and edit your question to that it is more clear to me.
tmuxstart() {
tmux new-session -d -s $1 >/dev/null
tmux rename-window -t $1:0 'main'
tmux splitw -v -p 10 -t $1:0.0
tmux splitw -h -p 80 -t $1:0.1
#required; otherwise pane numbering is bs
tmux select-pane -t $1:0.0
tmux splitw -h -p 5 -t $1:0.0
tmux send-keys -t $1:0.2 'sudo htop' Enter
tmux send-keys -t $1:0.1 'tmux clock -t $1:0.1' Enter
tmux select-pane -t $1:0.0
tmux new-window -t $1
tmux rename-window -t $1:1 'second'
tmux splitw -v -p 10 -t $1:1.0
tmux splitw -h -p 80 -t $1:1.1
tmux select-pane -t $1:1.0
tmux splitw -h -p 5 -t $1:1.0
tmux clock -t $1:1.1
tmux new-window -t $1
tmux rename-window -t $1:2 'scratch'
tmux splitw -v -p 10 -t $1:2.0
tmux select-pane -t $1:2.0
tmux splitw -h -p 5 -t $1:2.0
tmux clock -t $1:2.1
tmux select-window -t $1:0.0
tmux a -t $1
}

Tmux loading multiple enviroments from different files

Hello I would like to load multiple environments from different files. For example:
First File builds a session with 1 window and 3 panes.
Second File builds a session with 2 windows first window with 2 panes and second window with one pane.
Like:
tmux -f /path/to/file/basic.conf a
and then after detaching from the first session, i would like to load the same way the other enviroment.
tmux -f /path/to/file/scripting.conf a
but when i fire the second command i will attach to the first session (basic.conf).
But i would expect that when I fire the second script I would attach to the second session.
And tmux ls list only one session.
(The conf files by itself are running with no problem)
How is it possible to have multiple session build trough differnt conf files with tmux, and only with tmux no tmuxinator no tmuxp or anything else?
Or should i have one big conf file which builds everything that now is in muliply conf files?
basic.conf
SESSION_NAME="basic"
FIRST_WINDOW="shells"
SECOND_WINDOW="console"
source ~/.tmux.conf
new-session -s $SESSION_NAME -n $FIRST_WINDOW -d
split-window -h -t $SESSION_NAME
split-window -v -t $SESSION_NAME
new-window -n $SECOND_WINDOW -t $SESSION_NAME
select-window -t $SESSION_NAME:0.0
scripting.conf
SESSION_NAME="script"
FIRST_WINDOW="editor"
SECOND_WINDOW="console"
source ~/.tmux.conf
new-session -s $SESSION_NAME -n $FIRST_WINDOW -d
split-window -v -p 5 -t $SESSION_NAME
send-keys -t $SESSION_NAME:0.0 'cd ~/Code' C-m
send-keys -t $SESSION_NAME:0.0 'vim' C-m
send-keys -t $SESSION_NAME:0.1 'cd ~/Code' C-m
send-keys -t $SESSION_NAME:0.1 C-l C-m
new-window -n $SECOND_WINDOW -t $SESSION_NAME
send-keys -t $SESSION_NAME:1 'cd ~/Code' C-m
select-window -t $SESSION_NAME:0
I think I found a solution by myself.
The command:
tmux -f /path/to/file.conf a
should only be used when you would like to load another tmux config file instead of the default one.
If you like to start multiple sessions , which are preconfigured in files, then you have to do something like this:
tmux source-file -q .dotfiles/tmux/enviroments/basic.conf && tmux attach -t basic
Perhaps there is a better solution, but for now this solves my problem.
P.S. i made a little function to load the files less complicated.
function muxload(){
if [ -f ~/.dotfiles/tmux/enviroments/$1 ]; then
tmux source-file -q ~/.dotfiles/tmux/enviroments/$1 && tmux attach -t $1
fi
if [ -f ~/.dotfiles/tmux/enviroments/$1.conf ]; then
tmux source-file -q ~/.dotfiles/tmux/enviroments/$1.conf && tmux attach -t $1
fi
}
run it like this:
muxload {name_of_conf_file}

Tmux not detaching, sending keys from script

I have a remote server that I can reboot remotely, and I'm trying to make a script that starts my RESTful service. The script is called from .bash_profile. It starts it correctly, but it stays attached to the new tmux session, and hangs until I ssh in and manually detach it. Currently I'm sending C-b d but it doesn't detach.
Here is my small script:
tmux new-session -s cf
tmux send-keys -t cf 'cd ~/server' C-m
tmux send-keys -t cf 'sudo ./gradlew jettyRun' C-m
tmux send-keys -t cf 'C-b d'
How can I achieve this?
you can detach the session when creating it using -d :
tmux new-session -ds cf
and then you can access it anyway

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