# Welcome to tmux!

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created,
accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a
screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

This release runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS X and Solaris.

## Dependencies

tmux depends on [libevent](https://libevent.org) 2.x, available from [this
page](https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/latest).

It also depends on [ncurses](https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/), available
from [this page](https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/).

## Installation

### From release tarball

To build and install tmux from a release tarball, use:

~~~bash
./configure && make
sudo make install
~~~

tmux can use the utempter library to update utmp(5), if it is installed - run
configure with `--enable-utempter` to enable this.

### From version control

To get and build the latest from version control:

~~~bash
git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
cd tmux
sh autogen.sh
./configure && make
~~~

(Note that this requires at least a working C compiler, `make`, `autoconf`,
`automake`, `pkg-config` as well as `libevent` and `ncurses` libraries and
headers.)

## Contributing

Bug reports, feature suggestions and especially code contributions are most
welcome. Please send by email to:

tmux-users@googlegroups.com

Or open a GitHub issue or pull request.

There is [a TODO list](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Contributing) which
explains some ideas for tmux not yet developed.  Please feel free to ask for
clarifications on the mailing list if you're thinking of working on these or
need further information.

Please read [this document](CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening an issue.

## Documentation

For documentation on using tmux, see the tmux.1 manpage. View it from the
source tree with:

~~~bash
nroff -mdoc tmux.1|less
~~~

A small example configuration is in `example_tmux.conf`.

And a bash(1) completion file at:

https://github.com/imomaliev/tmux-bash-completion

For debugging, run tmux with `-v` or `-vv` to generate server and client log 
files in the current directory.

## Support

The tmux mailing list for general discussion and bug reports is:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-users

Subscribe by sending an email to:

tmux-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com