Add a brief note to the FAQ about how tmux handles window sizes and
renders the smaller one with dots.
This has come up on IRC three times in the past week, so I feel as though
it's time to document it,
Feel free to reword, etc.
---
FAQ | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 81421bc..20b84dd 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -420,5 +420,22 @@ Or for inside and outside copy mode with the prefix key:
On OS X, reattach-to-usernamespace lets pbcopy/pbpaste work:
https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard
-
+
+* Why do I see dots around a session when I attach to it?
+
+tmux limits the size of the window to the smaller session. If it didn't do
+this then it would be impossible to see the entire window. The dots mean
+that the size of the window as shown is the size tmux can display.
+
+ $ tmux attach -d
+
+Which will detach all clients first of all.
+
+If you've already got a session open, then the 'choose-client' command can
+be used which is bound to <prefix>-D by default, or you can use tmux's
+command-prompt to do this.
+
+One final way is to use the 'aggressive-resize' option, but this might not
+work well for all applications.
+
$Id$
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