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Cannot resize tmux pane from bash script

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Mar 15, 20264908 views
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Background and Problem: I have created a tmux script to open a few windows. It works great but then I wanted to place a vertically split pane on one window and resize it to 5 characters tall. I cannot get my bash script to resize the pane properly. Depending on the commands I try, it will increase …

Error Output

# the name of your primary tmux session
SESSION=$USER

# if the session is already running, just attach to it.
tmux has-session -t $SESSION
if [ $? -…

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Fix for: Cannot resize tmux pane from bash script

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Per the documentation, when you create a detached session ( ), it defaults to a size of 80×24. If you attach with a terminal window that is actually 24 lines high (or 25, since tmux uses one for a status line), then you should find that the below-Vi…

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