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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 398

[SOLVED] tmux as login shell

Hi,
anyone tried using tmux as login shell? chsh says it is invalid.
I want tmux to attach to an existing session or else create a new one upon login if no session exists.
Putting "exec /usr/bin/tmux attach" into my ~/.bash_profile doesn't create a session if none exists.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Last edited by awayand (2011-05-17 18:28:50)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: [SOLVED] tmux as login shell

tmux is not a shell itself but a terminal multiplexer; one or more shells are running inside tmux.

You can try something like this in your .bashrc:

if [[ -z "$TMUX" ]]; then
        tmux att 
fi

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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 398

Re: [SOLVED] tmux as login shell

Although I don't understand what the script does: that worked like a charm. Thanks!