alt Hacker NewsI would love to have a way to switch sessions easily, like with panes where I just click or have more shortcuts available
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i just have a little script called session (invoked as session namespace name and mapping to a tmux session called namespace/name and searching all namespaces if the namespace is elided) that just does the right tmux invocation for the various intersecting cases of [in or not in a tmux session already, target session does or does not exist] which also has the side benefit of leaving shell history breadcrumbs i can follow between sessions later if needed
I use byobu for managing tmux windows and sessions https://www.byobu.org/
People have developed plugins for this. Check out “sesh” for instance.
Switching between sessions with fuzzy finding, and creating new ones when needed, is a wonderful feature.
Check out the `choose-tree` and `display-menu` commands.
Prefix-w works, or did you want something more?
Here’s a simple session switcher: `bind C-a display-popup -E "tmux list-sessions -F '#{session_name}' | fzf --reverse | xargs tmux switch-client -t"`. No plugins, nothing fancy, just works.