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Peaceful
Peaceful

Reputation: 5450

Using tmux commands on ssh through a local tmux session

I have a local tmux session and I can do everything properly. Now I ssh to a remote machine and spawn a tmux session there. In the remote session, I would like to use all facilities like opening a new window, renaming a window, browsing through session-window tree etc. The problem is that whenever I use any such command, it is applied to the local session instead of the remote session! For example, ctrl + b + , to change the window name on remote, tries to rename the current local tmux window through which I have ssh-ed. This is true even when I have a blinking cursor in remote bash. How can I tell tmux that the command is to be executed on the remote machine, not on the local machine?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2736

Answers (1)

mtm
mtm

Reputation: 512

You will have to setup the below part in your .tmux.conf:

bind-key b send-prefix

Now you can press ctrl-b + b + , to change the inner session window name. Since by default all commands go to the outermost session, you will have to use the bind-key to access your inner session.

ctrl-b + b + ,  # changes name of inner session (remote)
ctrl-b + ,      # changes name of outer session (local)

I am assuming that ctrl-b is your default prefix key. By ctrl-b, I mean ctrl + b.
ctrl-b + b + , means that you have to press ctrl, press b twice and then press ,.

You can further use bind-key <key> send-keys <key1 key2> to bind a key to send multiple keys together and access windows which are inside your remote instance. You can refer to this answer or this answer for more information.

Upvotes: 4

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