Continuing the theme of upgrades breaking things, I realized that after the reinstallation of Proxmox I was not able to restore my tmux sessions. The mapped commands in my .tmux.conf for session-save, session-restore were not working but everything else was.
An initial check seemed to suggest it was PEBKAC error since I needed to clone the tmux plugin manager into my .tmux folder. However, even after doing that and trying to install the plugins via the plugin manager the session functionality was not working. I decided to check the GitHub issues in the tpm repo and in a completely unsurprising turn of events, there’s an open issue that since tmux 2.2 this has been broken. Anybody wanna take a bet that there was some barely announced deprecation of a tmux feature that’s the root cause?
Anyway, I was able to fix the plugins not loading by following the process below:
- Clone the plugin repo into your tpm plugins directory. For example to install
tmux-sensiblerungit clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-sensible - Add the line
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tmux-sensible/sensible.tmux'to the end of your.tmux.conffile. - Either re-start your tmux session or run
tmux source ~/.tmux.conf
Tested with: tmux-3.1b on Debian “Buster”