Terminal Multiplexing with tmux: Panes, Sessions and Surviving a Dropped SSH Connection
In tmux, shells run inside a background tmux server and your terminal is just a client; that's why a job outside tmux dies when SSH drops while a job inside tmux keeps going (shown with a real experiment). We cover sessions, windows and panes, prefix shortcuts, a development script that opens dotnet watch and ng serve with one command, copy mode, a minimal .tmux.conf that accounts for default changes between tmux 3.4 and 3.8, and the nested tmux and TERM pitfalls.
14 Nov 2026
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