tmuxifier inside existing tmux session causes errors

[joshgillies]

A workflow I'm trying to achieve would allow me to spin up tmux sessions at will. However it seems as though if I'm currently inside a tmux session I get the following errors:

➜  ~ tmuxifier s example-session
can't find window example-window
couldn't set 'allow-rename'
➜  ~

Any idea?

[GeeF]

At least for me this also happens outside of tmux, if the name of the session differs from the filename.
Correction: It happens, if the window title is the same for multiple windows in a session.

[wilmoore]

I've also noticed this; however, I've simply worked around it by detaching first, then loading the new session.

[joshgillies]

@wilmoore totally, I've come to the same conclusion. Not ideal but it works.

I think the reason it hit this in the first place, was I wanted to be able to spawn other sessions based from a "parent" session.

Eg. tmuxifier s app which itself calls tmuxifier s db-server && tmuxifier s api-server

[wilmoore]

Yup, same thing here. 👍

[breneser]

Same problem here, and I am starting a new tmux instance whenever I open a terminal window. That's why it is kind of annoying not being able to load a session inside a tmux session.

Is there a plan to fix this?

[cappuMUC]

I've stumbled over this issue while trying tmuxifier. The cause of the issue is that the session isn't specified in the set-option command for allow-rename so tmux defaults to the current session. I've opened a pull request for the fix.