Real-World Workflows

DevOps & infrastructure management

Manage many servers and monitoring systems from one screen.

• Server monitoring — split a window into a 2×2 grid with htop, iftop, log tailing, and a command prompt.
• Multi-server admin — use synchronize-panes (see advanced features) to run apt update on four servers simultaneously.
• Production support — keep a persistent session on the jump host to reach production without re-authenticating.

Software development

Turn the terminal into an IDE.

• IDE layout — Vim/Neovim on the left (80%), terminal/test runner on the right (20%).
• Context switching — one session for "Backend", one for "Frontend"; switch instantly with Ctrl+b s.
• TDD loop — use tmux send-keys from your editor to trigger tests in the adjacent pane automatically.

Automate your setup with a script (e.g. dev.sh) — see the configuration guide for more automation tips.

#!/bin/bash
tmux new-session -d -s dev -n "editor"
tmux send-keys -t dev "vim" C-m
 
tmux new-window -t dev -n "server"
tmux send-keys -t dev "npm run dev" C-m
 
tmux attach -t dev

Data science & long-running tasks

Never lose your training progress.

• Model training — start a 12-hour run on a remote GPU instance, detach, and check back later.
• Jupyter persistence — keep Jupyter Notebook servers running in a background session.
• Remote visualization — use SSH tunneling in one window while monitoring TensorBoard in another.