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How to detach from tmux and leave everything running — prefix d
You are done for now but the build, the download or the server must keep running after you leave.
tmux's default prefix is Ctrl-b: “prefix c” means press Ctrl-b, let go, then press c. Every CLI command was run for real against tmux 3.4 in detached test sessions, and every prefix binding was checked against the default binding table.
# inside tmux: press prefix (Ctrl-b), then d
tmux detach-client # the same detach, run as a command
tmux detach-client -s work # detach every client attached to session "work"Good to know
Detach is not exit: the shell, the build, the long-running job — all keep going inside the session. This is the feature that makes tmux worth learning; everything else is organisation.
