How do i make guake start with tmux?

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i am using i3wm and guake. I always use tmux inside guake to have split functionality detach function etc is there a way to start guake by default tmux running ?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '16 at 14:35

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Do you start guake automatically with your Desktop-session? Then yes write in $HOME/.config/autostart/guake.desktop by the Key Exec Exec=guake -e tmux If not cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop $HOME/.local/share/applications/guake.desktop and make the change there.

answered Dec 06 '16 at 14:35

i was starting it using i3 config file so guake -e tmux did the job :) – nikoss Dec 06 '16 at 14:50

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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You can set tmux on Guake Preferences (guake-prefs):

Or use friendly Byobu, which use tmux as default backend (change this with byobu-select-backend). Take a look at my answer here if you prefer this way.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Mar 31 '17 at 19:04

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 15 '21 at 13:17

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This is how I do it. In my .bashrc I append to the end...

tmux attach || tmux; clear

That will start tmux detaching the last session or open a new one and then clear the screen.

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answered Jun 13 '21 at 01:04

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 05 '23 at 08:30

Tmux as default shell interpreter for guake doesn't attach to any existing session and creates always new. I wanted it to attach to existing session to prevent multiplications of sessions since I use resurrect and continuum plugins.

I've put tmux attach to guake startup setting. I've left guake configured with default user-shell. So in case of crash of guake or something similar, I can just type tmux attach in default shell and continue where I left of.

guake -e 'tmux attach'

To force tmux to start new session if there is no current session I've placed next line into ~/.tmux.conf file

new-session

How do i make guake start with tmux?

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