TMUX support

[zachlloyd]

Right now blocks and input don't work within tmux sessions.

The most likely way we would support this is through tmux's control mode feature, like iTerm, where it would integrate with split panes.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode

Posting here to get a sense of how useful this would be. Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like it.

[alokedesai]

For anyone interested in this feature, we're running some focus groups to understand this use-case a little bit better. We would love for you to join if you are interested: https://calendly.com/aloke-warp/tmux-focus-group?month=2021-08&date=2021-08-18

[alexkubica]

Hi I'm a tmux & warp user and would like to join the focus group and perhaps test beta features once you have a draft.
The calendly link doesn't work anymore.

[Rehan-shah]

the calendal link is not working

[sumanth-lingappa]

The calendly link is not working

[martin-braun]

The first thing I do is enter a tmux session, always! Having everything in one window is so satisfying. Using keybindings that work on all stock tmux configurations is also crucial for me as system admin. If Warp can't work with that in the way to expect, I won't give it a shot.

[elviskahoro]

From @kendallm
During SSH:
"The window offset for the top of the window covers the first line of text. This isn't usually an issue using the Warp as normal, but attaching to a tmux session in a remote terminal this creates a bit of a UX issue. See attached screenshot.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Create a tmux session in another terminal window
In warp, type tmux attach -d
See screenshot below
Expected behavior
I would expect the viewport for terminal window not be obstructed by the tab bar."

[elviskahoro]

@thomasmarcel - #156 support starting tmux by default

Describe the bug

"I have some functions to open a new tmux session or reattach it when a new terminal session is opened, but it keeps crashing Warp on zsh startup.

I tried with no `.tmux.conf` file, with less logic, only opening a new session, same error.

Opening a tmux session after Warp finishes loading works fine.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce:

Add the line below to your .zshrc

tmux new-session -As "test"

Launch Warp

Expected behaviour

The terminal starts as expected and opens a tmux session."

[elviskahoro]

from zheng:

To clarify, does it crash - or does it show this modal?

We've been meaning to make this modal less intrusive (show a toast instead). I also think it may make sense for us to avoid showing it if the user's in a full screen program

[elviskahoro]

from thomasmarcel

It freezes and shows the modal, precisely!

[elviskahoro]

mapping the left option key to meta on M1 Macbook Air wouldnt work when using Tmux in Warp.
Im trying to use it to switch panes with h/j/k/l and it works correctly in nvim but not in a tmux terminal pane.

[jimmyhmiller]

I can't start tmux sessions. I can attach to them. But when I try to start them in warp I just get.

tmux
[exited]

The exit code is 0. Kind of makes warp unusable for me sadly.

[jimmyhmiller]

For what it's worth, things seem to be working for me now on the latest release.

[odyslam]

Yeah me too, heavy tmux/vim user, and I loved warp from what I was told.

I usually use tabs in tmux and panes in vim

[dannyneira]

Split Panes may help with this your case. https://docs.warp.dev/features/split-panes

[maiaz]

Unfortunately no. As tmux keep your remote sessions, and open new pane in warp and then ssh is a little bit painful…

[SC7639]

I use tmuxinator to set up my projects and open all the panes and windows I use. It would be great to have the features of the warp in tmux

[dannyneira]

Give Launch Configuration feature a try for your use case. https://docs.warp.dev/features/session-management/launch-configurations

[nielsk]

That is not the same. If I accidentally close my window, I can just "tmux a" and have the session open again. I can even log out of my graphical session and can log back in again, open a terminal, "tmux a" and there is my session. I have a shell script I start that will configure my Lay-out in tmux and start several programs in the correct layers.

I have the same shortcuts for splitting and navigating tabs and windows across multiple terminals and machines (where my tmux.conf exists) across Linux and macOS. Headless or not.

[nielsk]

Regarding that shell-script - that works also on a headless machine which I regularly ssh into from iOS-devices where Warp is not available.

[praisedare]

This shell-script of yours sounds really cool. Do you have it in a public repo or gist? I'd really like to have something like that as I use vim/tmux a lot for my projects.

[LEI]

Plugins can help restoring sessions, for example https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect saves the current state locally.
This way each host can have a different (and dynamic) layout.

I have an alias to attach or start a new session, usually one per host:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if ! hash tmux 2>/dev/null; then
  return
fi

t() {
  if [[ $# -ne 0 ]]; then
    tmux "$@"
  elif [[ -n "$TMUX" ]]; then
    tmux new-session -d
  else
    tmux attach || tmux new-session
  fi
}

if hash _tmux 2>/dev/null; then
  complete -F _tmux t
fi

[haranrk]

Same here, would love to have tmux support in warp

[josecanhelp]

Tmux support would be fantastic. I pretty much only use tmux in my terminals.

[JLHasson]

Similarly, tmux+{mosh, ssh} is almost equivalent to the terminal for me.

[SharkBaitDLS]

Yeah. I love the idea of Warp but my setup is so ingrained into Tmux

[tbezman]

I wouldn't mind leaving my tmux workflow if warp supported something like "Workspaces". Basically offering what tmuxinator does.

Right now when I use warp, I just have like 10 tabs open. Usually 2 tabs per project (general command stuff, and then lazygit in the other tab). I just want to be able to switch to a different project without having to remember which tab group I was in.

[rumanHuq]

This along with detached mode would be so darn cool!

[dimfeld]

EDIT: moved my comment to the session management topic, but it talked about how Warp could do session management features that would completely replace my tmux usage.

[petervanderdoes]

Would love to see support for tmux like iTerm2, tmux sessions are opened in tabs

[nielsk]

I don't even need special tmux-support like iTerm because that is tbh not working well for me, but in tmux all the special features of warp are gone apparently. And the first thing I do when I open up my computer and open up the first terminal is to start a shell-script that sets up my environment in tmux for me with multiple tabs, splits and starting some programs.

[MichaelRBond]

Same. I start tmux from my .bashrc file, and stay in that one tmux session all day.

[fwip]

My day-to-day workflow involves connecting back to long-running tmux sessions - some on my local machine, and many on a remote machine that I access over SSH. Ideally, for me, the solution that Warp lands on would work as well with remote tmux sessions as it does with local sessions.

[krak3n]

This is my workflow as well.

[jum]

Even local sessions are tmux in my use case as I want my sessions to survive when I log in or out. Not that I log in or out often, but at least when MacOS force me to do that to cope with a bug in the GUI I at least still have my command windows where I left them.

[wayneeseguin]

I also often leverage this workflow.

[joehannes]

Here's my 50 cent (as mentioned in another issue here):

I usually prefer tmux to profiles/sessions, because tmux to me was the well established go to product #1 ... plus

• tmux is independent, like it or not, if I someday prefer another terminal or need another terminal ... I can use my profiles/sessions as of tmux there out of the box as well
• there's plugins for tmux
• community
• docs

I still don't use warp because I can't go tmux-fullscreen and tmux-statusline rendering isn't good either ...

However I want to propose something that I think would be useful, plus feasible if still early days as of sessions/profiles (which I heard isn't (fully??) implemented yet):

• Why not use the established .tmux.conf for simulating the tmux-statusline in the top tabline???
  I am an avid status/powerline-user and would really like to see custom components and fancy tabs in the tabline, along with the possibility to hide a tabline with 1 tab/no-components only.

If you want to support tmux better anyway and possibly need to integrate with tmux somewhat and plan to have sessions & profiles in the future, why not simply instead of -- take care, persuasive wording ahead

• inventing your own schema nobody knows, a brand new one that takes some time to architect properly
• maintain that schema and extend it as the community thrives
  parse and simulate/emulate tmux.conf and tmuxinator.yml?? instead
  You get:
• a well estabished schema that's being used by I guess a good percentage of all the CLI geeks out there
• being maintained and developed by an existing community
• open source, meaning you can contribute if the need arises or the community wants something (also giving to OSS)
• you can even fork-extend it should you need to ...

[brandondrew]

this is the way

[dimitur2204]

However I want to propose something that I think would be useful, plus feasible if still early days as of sessions/profiles (which I heard isn't (fully??) implemented yet):

Why not use the established .tmux.conf for simulating the tmux-statusline in the top tabline???
I am an avid status/powerline-user and would really like to see custom components and fancy tabs in the tabline, along with the possibility to hide a tabline with 1 tab/no-components only.

Great points! I fully agree this is the way. I don't think any deeper integration is needed.

[gillbates]

three years, still missing ...

[userlifex]

Adding my voice too here. We'd love to have tmux integrated with warp

[mihai-chiorean]

tmux!

[orecham]

This is the only feature holding me back from embracing warp. Hope it gets some attention soon! 😄

[scaminom]

I would love to work with tmux and wrap together!

[nitishxyz]

would love tmux support on warp!

[dimitur2204]

It's been so long without any update on this. Is it on the roadmap or not?

[chvanikoff]

Tried warp once again today and was very surprised to see tmux is still not supported. I spend 99% of the time in terminal inside tmux sessions... Well, I guess I'll try again in 2-3 years.

[craigz]

I found my way here from a google search for warp & tmux. As a long time iTerm2 user, I've grown spoiled by the tmux support in that application and would be unwilling to forgo that for anything at this point. I'll keep an eye on this discussion just in case something changes along the way which would make me glad to integrate Warp into my workflow.

[m0n0x41d]

Any news on tmux support?
At least some reaction in this thread from product owners will be really appreciated. Thanks.

[alokedesai]

Hey everyone, Aloke from Warp here.

We very much agree that the lack of TMUX and/or TMUX-like features is an issue in Warp that needs to be addressed.

I don't have a concrete ETA for when anything would launch here, but this is one of the next projects on-deck for our team to start tackling and we hope to post a more concrete update / launch ETA soon.

[jfhgdfksjsd]

yep, precisely, the alternative to Tmux would need to still be able to support sessions on remote hosts you ssh'd into. Not sure if that's plausible with own feature. I know there are people using tmux locally too, but the extra value unlock lies in managing remote sessions persistently.

[mv-stns]

Beautiful to hear you working on this! Hopefully beautiful warp ui merges with tmux panes. Much appreciated!

[sjmiller609]

I want to mention as a new user to Warp, I would not want a tmux replacement or features similar to tmux. I would want tmux to work like it does in iTerm2, plus the Warp features on top of that. Generally speaking, I would use Warp expecting it to act exactly like a normal terminal, plus the AI features. Having Warp-specific features recommended over classic terminal commands would not be my preference. Has been nice working with Warp so far, thank you.

[sjmiller609]

Maybe worth mentioning, I open my terminal then start tmux immediately, working from there for all the shells I need. I prefer to use tmux over using the terminal program itself for tabs, horizontal / vertical split, and so on. I arrived on this github issue because I noticed warp features disappear when I start tmux. Somewhat related, I noticed when I did "docker exec -it container /bin/bash" from a warp shell into a container, it did something interesting to "warp-ify" the shell. I expected tmux might behave like that, but I do not understand how that would work.

[danielweck]

I noticed when I did "docker exec -it container /bin/bash" from a warp shell into a container, it did something interesting to "warp-ify" the shell. I expected tmux might behave like that, but I do not understand how that would work.

yeah, that would be the key for deep tmux integration I think.

[randybias]

+1 for tmux

[agluck91]

I did want to acknowledge that the team did an amazing job fixing all of the graphical errors on tmux!!! Tmux is at least usable in warp terminal now. It is the only reason I came back to warp. So many kudos and thanks to the team!! 😀 Looking forward to the deep integration with tmux.

I really don't use the ai as much as I would if it was integrated though. I am have even used GitHub copilot instead of hoping back out of tmux to use the warp ai. I keep a tab open just for warp ai now. But it is not seamless.

[rjparton]

All I want for Christmas is Warpmux 🎄🎅🎁

[Furlanetti]

I'm tmux + Warp user, and I love Warp! Good job on developing this terminal!
My experience with tmux in Warp has been really good, in my workflow I start Warp then tmux and start all the necessary splits in tmux for servers, text editors, etc. The only feature in my flow that I miss a lot is being able to use the warp drive commands inside tmux. If I try doing that I get an error: A command in this session is still running.

What I usually do is CTRL+P > type the search I'm looking for > type ENTER. But when I'm in tmux I do the search then I copy and paste it in the terminal inside tmux.
It would be amazing if this scenario worked in tmux + Warp!

Anyways, Thanks for the good terminal u guys created!