On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Iain Morgan <iain.mor...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:35:09 -0600, Jon Johnson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently switched to using tmux from screen and have been loving it,
>> but I've noticed something that seems peculiar to me. I've done some
>> google searching and haven't been able to determine if this is
>> supposed to be happening or is just something particular to my setup.
>> Any enlightenment would be appreciated!
>>
>> What I've been noticing is that tmux seems to be monitoring all of my
>> windows and autoclosing windows that have been idle for a certain
>> amount of time (I'm not exactly sure how long - seems to be maybe like
>> 20 minutes or so). If I leave a tmux session alone long enough, it
>> will close all of the windows and close the session too. This isn't
>> really the behavior I expected or want. I'm looking for a way to have
>> it just leave my windows alone. I like to leave different windows in
>> certain directories, ready to work in. It's a bit frustrating when the
>> windows keep disappearing.
>>
>> I tried adding this line to my .tmux.conf, thinking it might help:
>>
>> set-window-option -g monitor-silence 0
>>
>> but it doesn't seem to have affected the behavior at all. If anyone
>> recognizes this behavior or knows how to change it, I'd appreciate it.
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> If the command which you are executing in the window (your shell by
> default) exits, tmux will close the window. Check whether TMOUT or
> autologout is set in your shell.
>
> You may also want to look at tmux's remain-on-exit option. Adding this
> to your .tmux.conf should help:
>
> setw -g remain-on-exit  on
>
> --
> Iain Morgan


It ended up being the $autologout variable in csh. Sorry, I guess this
had nothing to do with tmux. Thanks for the help anyways!

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