If you are interested in it from a code rather than a user perspective there is another element called a winlink which sits between a session and its windows. It is what allows a window to be attached to many sessions.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:45:56PM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > Exactly right. > > A server contains one or more sessions, each of which contains one or more > windows, each of which contains one or more panes. > > A target (used with -t) is a 3-tuple represented as session:window.pane. > > The server is specified with -L (or sometimes -S) on the command line, servers > do not communicate with other servers but you can think of it as the fourth > element of a tuple of you like. > > The terminal (or "screen" in the man page) is the outside tty (eg an xterm) in > which tmux runs. > > The client is usually best thought of as the tmux display engine which > occupies > the terminal and shows a window (although in fact it actually does very > little, > just prevents other programs trying to run on the same terminal). > > Only terminals are really anywhere near complicated because every pane inside > tmux displays another terminal... > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:36:17PM -0800, Hibiki Kanzaki wrote: > > I am trying to come up with a mental model for all the > > entities (terminal, client, server, session, window, pane). > > > > It seems like for me it might be simplest to imagine > > that conceptually it is always a pane that is closest > > to the program I see inside a window/pane, even a > > window with only one pane. Otherwise it would seem like > > sometimes a program is running in a window and sometimes > > in a pane inside a window... which might make sense to > > me if they were client-side things, but it seems like for > > tmux the window/pane model is really on the server side. > > In any case it seems like I should always be able to > > identify a single terminal by using a tuple (server, > > session, window, pane)... always a 4-tuple. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > tmux-users mailing list > > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
