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I'm not sure what to name this question, as I am not sure what the technical name is for the type of program I am talking about.

Is there a program available for Git Bash that is similar to screen, tmux, or byobu? I know all 3 are available for Cygwin, but I can not find information about using them with Git Bash. I like Git Bash because it is simpler and takes up less space, among other things.

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  • possibly related http://superuser.com/questions/268042/terminal-emulator-with-split-panes-for-windows-7-64-bit – user2485710 Jun 08 '14 at 17:14
  • Wow @user2485710, that looks as good as or better than `screen`/the others! But I'd guess it's for a different purpose & takes up more space. I'll have to research it some more. – trysis Jun 08 '14 at 17:20
  • For some reason `StackOverflow` isn't letting me tag this question as `git-bash` and keeps changing it to `git`. – trysis Jun 08 '14 at 17:25
  • @trysis, [tag:git-bash] [is a synonym](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/synonyms) for [tag:git]. – ChrisGPT was on strike Jun 08 '14 at 18:18
  • Oh... now I feel stupid. – trysis Jun 08 '14 at 19:48
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    The OP (and myself) are looking for something that allows one to attach and detach from sessions, not have a bunch of windows open simultaneously. – conner.xyz Feb 04 '16 at 20:46
  • Maybe http://superuser.com/questions/701141/how-to-add-more-commands-to-git-bash-shell helps here? – das-g Feb 05 '16 at 23:07

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Nowadays the official git for windows is based at msys2 which seems to have tmux package at least. You can install g4w sdk as described here and then install tmux through pacman.

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  • I am facing a challenge in installing tmux plugins. and I get this weird error called server lost. I basically for now want my sessions to persist between system restarts. I want to achieve that using tpm, resurrect and continuum for a start. Please suggest some pointers for installing tmux plugins while using g4w sdk. – Jitendra Jul 28 '17 at 19:32
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    Doesn't work for me even though I've installed the latest Git 64-bit. For `tmux` I get `tmux which: no tmux in` then a bunch of directories listed. And the `pacman` command is not found. – Attila Szeremi Oct 15 '17 at 22:41