Tmux tips and tricks prefix key From https://gist.github.com/JikkuJose/7509315 Change "prefix" key to the backtick ` add to ~/.tmux.conf unbind C-b set-option -g prefix ` bind ` send-prefix the last line means typing two backticks in succession will pass the second one to the application - so can still enter ` into app. running in the tmux window. terminal colours Colours in tmux...need TERM "xterm-256color"... add to ~/.bashrc: export TERM=xterm-256color also to ~/.tmux.conf set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color" start programs in tmux Something like this: start_direwolf.sh #!/bin/bash session="Igate" tmux start-server tmux new-session -d -s $session tmux rename-window "direwolf" tmux selectp -t 0 tmux send-keys "direwolf -t 1 -T "%c" -c /home/gm4slv/direwolf.conf" C-m