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rthomson

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An old friend meets a new friend: tmux for MobaXterm!

In a previous sysadmin life, I used tmux to good effect. Today, Im using a Windows 8.1 system as my primary work desktop and recently
got into MobaXterm for my Linux/terminal/X11 needs. While my most common usage scenario for tmux is invoking it on a remote
server/VM instead of directly on my local machine, I thought it would be a good exercise to install tmux for local usage on MobaXterm and
sharing that work by creating a plugin.
Download: tmux 1.9a for MobaXterm (tmux.mxt3)
tmux.mxt3 includes the following software:
libevent 2.0.21 stable
ncurses 5.9
tmux 1.9a
The licenses for the above software is included within the mxt3 (zip) file.
For additional MobaXterm plugins and installation instructions, see the MobaXterm plugins page.
Additional credits:
Installation instructions for tmux on cygwin
Creating MobaXterm plugins
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RTHOMSON

4 thoughts on tmux for MobaXterm

STEVE
2014/06/04 at 23:55

Thank you for this plugin.

I have a small problem : it seems that my bashrc file is not sourced by tmux.
I put a .bashrc file in MobaXterm home directory (C:\Users\username\Documents\MobaXterm\home) which is sourced by
MobaXterm at startup.
But when I run tmux, another instance of Bash is run without sourcing my bashrc.
I see it because my prompt changes and I have no more aliases.
If I manually source this file : source $HOME/.bashrc, I get back my prompt, aliases, etc.
So I guess its just a mather of initialization.
Have you any clue about this?
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RTHOMSON
2014/06/05 at 20:08

Thats interesting. I havent setup a ~/.bashrc in my MobaXterm local environment and didnt test but now that I try, I can
reproduce it.
This should be your solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9652126/bashrc-profile-is-not-loaded-on-new-tmux-sessionor-window-why
In short: You need to source ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile.
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BBERGMAN
2015/01/30 at 14:19

Thanks for a cool plugin. Havent used tmux in years, but its great to see it for MobaXterm. Now I just have to remind myself
of all the commands. :)
Note; I had a similar problem as Steve, where the .bashrc file wasnt getting parsed by MobaXterm because all the stock
commands were loaded after it (thus ignoring some commands that I put in there). By using the trick in the stackoverflow link,
it solved my problem. Double win!
Thanks for your hard work and a great plugin!
Bruce
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RTHOMSON
2015/02/02 at 15:11

Bruce: My pleasure! Im glad that people are finding it useful.

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