Work Flow

1. Persist tmux status automatically or manually;

2. After restarting the computer, all sessions, windows and panes can comes back.

Solution

First make sure your tmux version >= 1.9 with tmux -V. If not, run: ``` proxychains wget https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/2.3/tmux-2.3.tar.gz tar zxf tmux-2.3.tar.gz cd tmux-2.3 ./configure && make sudo apt-get install libevent-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev sudo apt-get remove tmux sudo make install

Then install [Tmux Plugin Manager](https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm),
[Tmux Resurrect](https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect) and
[tmux-continuum](https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum):

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm ```

Adding the following lines in the end of ~/.tmux.conf (without running tmux server):

# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum'
set -g @continuum-restore 'on'

# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'

and run tmux source-file .tmux.conf. Start tmux and press prefix + I to install all the plugins. When finished, press prefix + Ctrl-S (key shortcut for saving tmux session) to verifiy the installation.

Now the tmux status will be saved to disk every 15 minutes, or save it manually with prefix, Ctrl-S.

After restarting computer, run tmux in console, all tmux sessions, windows and panes will be restored automatically (or you can restore them manually with prefix, Ctrl-R).

You can remove the temporary session with tmux kill-session -t 0, where "0" is the name of the temporary session.

Note:

For more details about tmux plugin manager (update, remove plugin, for example), see README.md of Tmux Plugin Manager.

If not install with apt-get, you can install libevent with downloading libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz and install it from source.