Is there any way to redraw tmux window when switching smaller monitor to bigger one

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Let s say you re connecting to a remote server over ssh with Terminal app  When you  tmux attach  with bigger resolution monitor from smaller one you previously started tmux  it draws dots around the console  It doesn t fit the new window size  Is there any way to redraw and clean the window  CTRL L or CTRL-B   R doesn t help  I couldn t find any proper command on man     tmux -V tmux 1 5

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A simpler solution on recent versions of tmux (tested on 1.9) you can now do :

tmux detach -a

-a is for all other client on this session except the current one

You can alias it in your .[bash|zsh]rc

alias takeover="tmux detach -a"

Workflow: You can connect to your session normally, and if you are bothered by another session that forced down your tmux window size you can simply call takeover.

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I just ran into this problem and stumbled across a different situation  Although it s probably just a unicorn  I thought I d lay it out   I had one session that was smaller  and I noticed that the font sizes were different  the smaller session had the smaller fonts  Apparently  I had changed window font sizes for some reason   So in OS X  I just did Cmd-  on the smaller sized session  and it snapped back into place

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The other answers did not help me as I only had client attached  the previous one that started the session was already detached    To fix it I followed the answer here  I was not using xterm    Which simply said    Detach from tmux session Run resize linux command Reattach to tmux session

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You can always press CTRL-B   SHIFT-D to choose which client you want to detach from the session    tmux will list all sessions with their current dimension  Then you simply detach from all the smaller sized sessions

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This is still the top post when searching  but it s no longer valid  Best answer is here  but the TLDR is    lt c-b gt  resize-window -A

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tmux limits the dimensions of a window to the smallest of each dimension across all the sessions to which the window is attached  If it did not do this there would be no sensible way to display the whole window area for all the attached clients   The easiest thing to do is to detach any other clients from the sessions when you attach   tmux attach -d   Alternately  you can move any other clients to a different session before attaching to the session   takeover           create a temporary session that displays the  how to go back  message     tmp  takeover temp session      if   tmux has-session -t   tmp   then         tmux new-session -d -s   tmp          tmux set-option -t   tmp  set-remain-on-exit on         tmux new-window -kt   tmp  0                echo  Use Prefix   L  i e   B L  to return to session        fi        switch any clients attached to the target session to the temp session     session   1      for client in   tmux list-clients -t   session    cut -f 1 -d     do         tmux switch-client -c   client  -t   tmp      done        attach to the target session     tmux attach -t   session    takeover  original session    or the session number if you do not name sessions   The screen will shrink again if a smaller client switches to the session   There is also a variation where you only  take over  the window  link the window into a new session  set aggressive-resize  and switch any other sessions that have that window active to some other window   but it is harder to script in the general case  and different to    exit    since you would want to unlink the window or kill the session instead of just detaching from the session

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ps ax   grep tmux 17685 pts 22   S      0 00 tmux a -t 13g2 17920 pts 11   S      0 00 tmux a -t 13g2 18065 pts 19   S      0 00 grep tmux   kill the other one

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I use Ctrl-b   q which makes it flash number for each pane  redrawing them on the way

[tmux] Is there any way to redraw tmux window when switching smaller monitor to bigger one?

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