Glossary¶

tmuxp¶

A tool to manage workspaces with tmux. A pythonic abstraction of tmux.

tmux¶

tmux(1)¶

The tmux binary. Used internally to distinguish tmuxp is only a layer on top of tmux.

ConfigReader¶

The ConfigReader configuration management class, for parsing YAML / JSON / etc. files to and from python data (dictionaries, in the future, potentially dataclasses)

Server¶

tmux runs in the background of your system as a process.

A server holds one or more Session. tmux starts the server automatically the first time $ tmux runs, if it isn’t already running.

Advanced: you can run more than one by specifying [-L socket-name] or [-S socket-path].

Client¶

Attaches to a tmux server. When you use tmux through CLI, you are using tmux as a client.

Session¶

Inside a tmux server.

The session has 1 or more Window. The bottom bar in tmux show a list of windows. Normally they can be navigated with Ctrl-a [0-9], Ctrl-a n and Ctrl-a p.

Sessions can have a session_name.

Uniquely identified by session_id.

Window¶

Entity of a session.

Can have 1 or more pane.

Panes can be organized with layouts.

Windows can have names.

Pane¶

Linked to a Window.

a pseudoterminal.

Target¶

A target, cited in the manual as [-t target] can be a session, window or pane.