Problems with TMux on macOS

[Carl Caulkett]

~/tmux ❯❯❯ uname -sp && ./tmux -V && echo $TERM

Darwin i386

tmux next-3.2

xterm-256color

~/tmux ❯❯❯

macOS 10.14.6

Alacritty 0.41 (most recent stable release, I think)

I am having problems with TMux on macOS. The first time I installed it, using Homebrew, it seemed to work, and any difficulties I had was down to my lack of understanding of it. I then reinstalled TMux using Hoebrew again, but this time, for example, the C-B C shortcut did not work. Other signs of odd behaviour were that the backspace key no longer operated as normal, producing instead space characters, and also, when I type `exit` from the opening TMux session, rather than closing and returning to the parent shell, TMux just hangs,

I then ran `brew remove tux` followed by `brew install tux` 3 more times but the same problems persisted.

I thed removed TMux once more and then reinstalled from Version Control as per https://github.com/tmux/tmux. Still the same problems occurred.

The log files were generated with the config file disabled.

Thanks in advance for ant guidance you can give me!

Cheers,

Carl Caulkett

[Nicholas Marriott]

Did you restart tmux entirely ("tmux kill-server") and start a new
alacritty terminal when you updated?


On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 03:57:41PM -0700, Carl Caulkett wrote:
> ~/tmux a*-a*-a*- uname -sp && ./tmux -V && echo $TERM

> Darwin i386
> tmux next-3.2
> xterm-256color

> ~/tmux a*-a*-a*-

> macOS 10.14.6
> Alacritty 0.41 (most recent stable release, I think)
> I am having problems with TMux on macOS. The first time I installed it,
> using Homebrew, it seemed to work, and any difficulties I had was down to
> my lack of understanding of it. I then reinstalled TMux using Hoebrew
> again, but this time, for example, the C-B C shortcut did not work. Other
> signs of odd behaviour were that the backspace key no longer operated as
> normal, producing instead space characters, and also, when I type `exit`
> from the opening TMux session, rather than closing and returning to the
> parent shell, TMux just hangs,
> I then ran `brew remove tux` followed by `brew install tux` 3 more times
> but the same problems persisted.
> I thed removed TMux once more and then reinstalled from Version Control as

> perA https://github.com/tmux/tmux. Still the same problems occurred.

> The log files were generated with the config file disabled.
> Thanks in advance for ant guidance you can give me!
> Cheers,
> Carl Caulkett
>

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[Carl Caulkett]

Thanks for the reply. The problems persisted until my Mac just spontaneously rebooted. Since then, everything seems okay! Whatever the problem was must have been at a sufficiently low level (and yes, I did run `tmux kill-server` a couple of times) to really foul things up!

[Carl Caulkett]

Incidentally, I’ve discovered a couple of tools which complement TMux nicely. I’m sure the knowledgeable denizens of this list know this already, but in case not…

1. Is https://www.byobu.org/home, a really easy-to-use textual front end to TMux with ridiculously intuitive keystrokes.

2. Is https://github.com/jarun/nnn, a really fast text file manager in the style of Ranger but even faster.

Both are available across a range of platforms. I’m using them both on macOS. `brew install byobu` and `brew install nnn` is all you need to do!