Start tmux at Windows Terminal WSL startup

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Start tmux in Windows Terminal WSL startup

Tmux should already be installed in your system

apt install tmux

Create a file in /etc/init-wsl

#!/usr/bin/env bash

exec tmux

The file should then be user executable

sudo chmod u+x /etc/init-wsl

Go to Terminal Settings > Debian (Profiles) > Command line

If the linux distro used is the default, use this Command line

C:\Windows\system32\wsl.exe /etc/init-wsl

or just put tmux a at the end of whaetever command is there (tmux a will attach to last session)

my command: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wsl.exe -d Ubuntu tmux a

you can take this further and use a program like tmuxifier to make specific work flows so you can have profiles that auto go to that workflow

tmux a only works when there is already a Tmux session running. My setup is C:\WINDOWS\system32\wsl.exe -d Ubuntu tmux new-session /bin/zsh. It will create a new session each time when you open a new window, and you can explore and attach to a Tmux sessions with <prefix> + s