What terminal emulators support tmux control mode?

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tmux has its control mode, activated with -CC, to allow the terminal emulator to control tmux. iTerm2 uses this to great effect for allowing tmux windows to appear as separate iTerm windows.

Are there other terminal emulators that support control mode? I am particularly interested in terminal emulators / SSH clients for Windows that might offer such functionality, but Linux/Unix ones are interesting as well.

Have you ever succeeded in using iterm2 + ssh + tmux -CC? If so, could you possibly edit the question (or a pastebin somewhere) with details? — bmargulies, Mar 26 '15 at 12:53
@bmargulies I just run `tmux -CC` in my SSH session from iterm2 and it works. — Michael Ekstrand, Mar 30 '15 at 20:36
There's a feature request for Terminator: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1301605 — Lari Hotari, Nov 18 '15 at 22:50
See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33335101/linux-terminal-emulator-for-tmux-control-mode — Zanchey, Apr 13 '16 at 14:12
There's a feature request for ConEmu, too: https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues/578 — cg., Nov 09 '16 at 08:22

Florian · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-26T16:31:32.783

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Edit : see the other answer, give a try to EternalTerminal : It has tmux -CC support and can be installed on linux. It may not be exactly what you need though.

What you are asking does not seem to be developed on linux yet with the mainstream terminal emulators :

Terminator has an open issue, somebody seems to be working on it actively : https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1301605
Gnome-terminal doesn't seem to have any support. There is an open bug in upstream bugzilla: GNOME/vte#2177 - tmux integration
Konsole also has an open bug: bug 372496 - Support tmux control mode
Eterm: Nothing.
Rxvt: Nothing.
List not exhaustive; comments welcome.

Another idea would be to run your dear Iterm2 mac binary in your Linux environment. But the solutions currently available will not support it :

Darling ? It uses a Wine-like approach but "At this point, does not yet run OS X application with a GUI" http://www.darlinghq.org/
Maloader ? "Running all Mac binaries isn't my goal. Only command line tools such as compiler tool chain can be executed by this loader" https://github.com/shinh/maloader#readme

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answered May 03 '16 at 14:59

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Tilix (formerly terminix) has an open issue as well: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/480 – ivant May 05 '17 at 10:06
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Is EternalTerminal a terminal emulator? They say it's kind of like mosh but with support for tmux control mode. With iTerm2, you can open a new tab and it is connected to the same host as the original tab. – Steven Shaw Jun 03 '19 at 03:55
Kitty issue: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/480 – Victor Sergienko Jun 07 '19 at 18:26
Seems like Hyper (https://hyper.is) will get proper support once this plugin is finalized: https://github.com/MisterTea/hyper-htm. – Max Semikin Nov 27 '19 at 15:24
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As I commented in the other answer, EternalTerminal doesn't seem to be a terminal emulator, and doesn't supply what OP is asking for. – Matthew Sharp Dec 16 '20 at 20:42

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '18 at 19:24

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EternalTerminal has tmux -CC support and connection persistence.

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While this may theoretically answer the question, it would be [preferable to include the essential parts of the answer](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8259) here, and provide the link for reference. – Stephen Rauch Jul 21 '17 at 22:22
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Unless I am missing something EternalTerminal is a remote shell ala ssh, not a gui terminal emulator ala Konsole, Terminator, etc. – Matthew Sharp Dec 16 '20 at 20:38

score -5 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 28 '15 at 11:23

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On Windows try ConEmu, for Linux GNU Screen, because tmux sessions are like screen -d -m (other sessions on same instance screen -x)

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What terminal emulators support tmux control mode?

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