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user456584
user456584

Reputation: 88895

How to save tmux session to tmuxinator project?

I'm a tmux user and a fan of tmuxinator because it lets me get back to a baseline tmux session setup with ease.

However, I find that my setup changes on a regular basis, and editing my tmuxinator setup by hand can become tedious.

Is there a way to effectively tmuxinator save-session, such that my current tmux session gets saved into a tmuxinator project of choice with the panes, windows, and other details of the session automatically stored?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 14484

Answers (3)

Monir
Monir

Reputation: 1660

Steps:

  1. Clone the tmux-resurrect repository: Clone the tmux-resurrect repository to your local machine using git. Run the following command to clone the repository into the ~/.tmux/plugins directory:
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect
  1. Configure Tmux to use the plugin: Add the following line to your ~/.tmux.conf file to enable the tmux-resurrect plugin:
run-shell ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-resurrect/resurrect.tmux
  1. Reload the Tmux configuration: Reload the Tmux configuration file by running the following command in the terminal:

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

  1. Prefix (ctl+b) + ctl+s to save and Prefix (ctl+b) + ctl+r to restore

Upvotes: 0

user777337
user777337

Reputation:

Here's a tmux plugin I wrote that enables you to save and completely restore tmux sessions/environments:

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

Upvotes: 15

alpheus
alpheus

Reputation: 317

I've been trying to figure out how to save sessions. One solution I am looking at can be found here:

Custom Scripts for saving Tmux sessions...

This link provides scripts that the author wrote for saving sessions at regular intervals, and saving a series of backups of those sessions.

I haven't personally tried the scripts myself, but they seem to be a potential issue for this situation.

(As for myself: I'm a little surprised that Tmux doesn't provide something like this as a built-in feature. With Screen I can understand: the code base is so messy, it's difficult to add anything new...)

Upvotes: 11

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