So, I've used screen for more than 30 years and have slowly been switching some of my usage of it to tmux. I've switched my "need a bit of persistence on this host, maybe a couple windows" usages over and am now down to my "base" system. Time to switch over the "open a bunch of windows at startup" setup. And I can't figure out from the manpage WTH I need to do to achieve that.
In particular, my old .screenrc set a bunch of global stuff and then ended with a string of screen -t local screen -t pine alpine screen -t lab ssh lab screen -t one screen -t two screen -t three screen -t bleys ssh bleys ...etc So, what do I need to put in a .tmux.conf to have tmux start up and create a set of windows? Ideally it would leave me in the first but that would be gravy. I tried putting a bunch of "new-window" lines in and it helpfully reports the file+line# and "no current target". Ok, so I guess I need a session first, so I put new-session -A before the new-window lines...and it creates a _second_ session, puts my new-window's into that, but leaves my current invocation in a session with just the default window. How do I convince it to create my windows in the session that it already created? I don't see any examples in the manpage of how to create windows at startup. Does anyone have guidance or an example of what to write to do this? Philip Guenther
