Cli written on Go for saving and restoring tmux sessions lazy. Key features:
Save sessions: current, specific, or all — including windows, panes, layouts, running commands, and scrollback history.
Lazy restore: restore only what you need, avoiding high RAM usage.
Autosave daemon: periodically snapshots all sessions in the background (single instance, no conflicts).
Interactive TUI browser: tree view (sessions/windows) + table (commands, snapshot time, counts, status) with fuzzy search.
Keyboard-driven picker for fast search, navigation, and manage sessions and windows directly inside picker tree.
Flexible sorting via --session-sort or --window-sort (by last-used, time, size, name, command, etc.).
Optional fzf integration via --fzf-engine (lighter and no dependencies binary, but without full keyboard control and TUI picker); add --windows to pick a specific window instead of a whole session.
Bootstrap restore on tmux startup: auto-restore latest or specific session.
Full environment snapshots: restore pane layout and commands (e.g. npm, docker-compose, nvim).
Optional scrollback capture: preserve and replay previous terminal output.
Save your sessions, kill the entire tmux server, then bring everything back from the TUI picker:
Chekout lazy-tmux.xyz for more informaiton about installation and usage!
Just for bulding from source you need to have installed go and cloned this project. After that run:
make build
Binary will compiled in bin/lazy-tmux. For more development options checkout Makefile tasks.
[!NOTE]
tmux versions: lazy-tmux supports every tmux release from 2.9 through 3.7b,
verified on each one by the CI version matrix. Newer releases are added as they ship.
For configuration, CLI reference, and usage, see the docs at
lazy-tmux.xyz.
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