Tag: tmux

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Linux Networking

use SSH agent sockets with tmux

Tmux is a nice helper for having multiple parallel shells running, especially using SSH connections. Additionally your shells remain running after connection lost. But if you also using SSH agents for using your SSH keys also on other servers, you have a problem with reconnecting to such tmux sessions.

If you reconnect, the unix socket to your SSH agent will change and because the shell is reused respectively reattached, your SSH agent will no operate as expected.

So you have to change the environment variable after reconnect to a new value. This is quite not easy, especially for already running programs. So it is easier to symlink your current unix socket to a specific file and update only the symlink on reconnect.

To achieve this, you should add the following code to your .bashrc (or whatever shell you are using).

if [[ ! -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]] ; then
    if [[ -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" && $(basename "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK") != "localauthsock" ]] ; then
        ln -sf "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ~/.ssh/localauthsock
    fi
fi
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$HOME/.ssh/localauthsock
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Linux

using sytem clipboard with tmux

If you are using tmux to handle your multiwindow console, you should be familiar with the copy text function (CTRL+A + [ then cursors and SPACE to select text then ENTER and insert with CTRL+Aa + ]) .

If you are also using the vim mode for navigating in copy mode you can set your Y key for yanking text into the system clipboard. So you can use ENTER for tmux internal copy and Y for copy to system clipboard.

First you should check that you have xclip installed, or you need to install it (here Ubuntu):

apt install xclip

Now you have to check your tmux version:

tmux -V

If you have tmux < 2.5, you have to add this to your tmux.conf (or enter it in live tmux session with CTRL+A + :)

bind -t vi-copy y copy-pipe 'xclip -in -selection clipboard'

If you have tmux >= 2.5, you have to add this to your tmux.conf:

bind -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'xclip -in -selection clipboard'

Of course this works by default only using a local tmux session.