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I would like to do the following: - Start work day, type a command to create a tmux session which would create x windows, dropping me specifically in directories that I specify in some config file - I would like to have scripts that are run for four scenarios a) on creation of the tmux session, re-attach to the tmux session, detatch from tmux session, destroy tmux session.

Or is there a better tool for this?

Use-case is basically I want to stop all work-related resources at end of work day including docker containers, but restart them the following day. Ideally it would be as simple as tmux a -t work to get started again which would start necessary docker containers from a bunch of directories, and then tmux detach would kill the containers

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Look into tmux-resurrect[0]. It allows you to save and restore tmux sessions, and an accept-list of running processes within those sessions. Ideally, you'd get the tmux session into the state you want re: windows, CWDs, running processes, etc., save it, and then restore from that session in the future.

[0] https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect

this plugin has been a godsend for me, since I like to have many sessions open, and I can resume my setup exactly how I left it in each and everyone of them, at any time.

Can we have tmux inside tmux, and still benefit from the session resume [and the sessions-in-session resume, of course]?

You might find tmuxinator (https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator) helpful. It doesn't do everything you describe, but I use it to spin up sessions configured per project.

> Or is there a better tool for this?

You can write very simple scripts that perform the actions that you describe. It does not seem that there's a better tool than the shell, for this.

There are tons of examples on how to do this in the shell. Here is some inspiration: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54954177/how-to-write-a-...

Very similar to tmuxinator, but in python:

https://github.com/tmux-python/tmuxp

I use this one as I found it easier to set up, and a bit more intuitive to script. Also if you use python rather than ruby, it's easier to understand!

tmuxinator

https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator

There are other solutions but I used this one for a while and liked it. Then stopped doing as much development at home (work is Windows) and haven't used it in a while. It's easy(ish) to create different configs for different needs. I basically had a Common Lisp IDE or a C++ IDE or whatever set of things I commonly used.

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