To save doing this again in future you can copy and version control the config file at ~/Library/Preferences/2. There is an integration between iTerm2 and tmux powered by.
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Is it worth it to run iTerm2 in full screen mode And don’t forget to run you iTerm2 in full screen mode.
There are a few limitations of tmux integration which are related to the design of tmux.
Save lines to scrollback when an app status bar is present You can get them back with tmux -CC attach. The integration allows you to see tmux windows as native iTerm2 windows or tabs. If you want to run a tmux command that isn't available through the menus, you can press C. The tmux protocol commands will be written to the screen. If you want to report a bug, press L and reproduce the issue. You may need to run 'stty sane' to restore your terminal's state if the tmux client did crash. Actually it’s fairly simple.Įnable the option under Preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal called: Press 'X' to force iTerm2 to exit tmux mode.
#ITERM2 TMUX HOW TO#
There are no end of suggestions about how to fix this, including “disable the status bar” and “it should just work”. Setting up the keybinds is not the most straightforward process. Again, if I am using tmux through ssh, I can still use the keybindings, as if tmux were running locally. Suddenly scrolling back in the outer terminal shows history from prior to the start of tmux. For MacOS, I chose iTerm2 because it’s able to send a series of hex codes to the terminal via a keybind. It seems all is well until it comes to using iTerm2 on OSX. By disabling them the output is allowed to spill over. These capabilities are responsible for saving and restoring terminal history/state. Under the covers this disables the inner terminal’s smcup and rmcup capabilities when ENV =~ /^xterm/.
So long as you don’t change windows within the tmux session you can use the scrollbar of your local terminal to review the history. It maps all of tmuxs idiosyncracies to a normal window system. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. What is tmux It enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted. Set -g terminal-overrides effect of this is that when the output of the inner terminal exceeds the terminal’s height it is allowed to spill over into the outer terminal’s scrollback history. Discovering iterm2s tmux integration was a huge workflow improvement for me. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer.