TMUX on Windows Terminal on MYSYS2 and Git Bash

To get tmux on Windows Terminal follow the below steps:

1. Install MYSYS2
2. Install Git for Windows
3. Install tmux on MYSYS2 pacman -S tmux
4. Install util-linux on MYSYS2 pacman -S util-linux
5. Copy the following binaries from C:\msys64\usr\bin to C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin
   • tmux
   • msys-event_core-2-1-7.dll - may change just try to start tmux on git bash and see what dependancy is missing.
   • script.exe
6. Then copy the following alias to your preffered file. I use ~/.bash_profile

   tmux() {
   # execute tmux with script
     TMUX="command tmux ${@}"
     SHELL=/usr/bin/bash script -qO /dev/null -c "eval $TMUX"
   }
   

7. Close all the windows then start them once more.
8. Use this tmux.conf config.

Credits / References

• Where I got the script solution from Microsoft Terminal GitHub Issues
• Where I stole the ALIAS from Alacritty GitHub Issues