Save current session, or a specific session, or all sessions to disk using save. Snapshots preserve windows, panes, layouts, running shell commands and shell scrollback history for later restoration.
Lazy restore only the session you pick with restore command or interactively with picker. You don't need to spend RAM for all sessions at startup – unlike tmux-resurrect which restores everything at once.
Interactive TUI session browser combining a deep tree view of sessions, windows, and panes with a table showing additional information: active command in each pane, last snapshot time, number of windows/panes per session, and session status (restored or not). Fuzzy search makes it lightning fast to locate any window or pane.
Keyboard-driven picker that lets you search, navigate, and restore sessions without leaving tmux.
Flexible session and window sorting through --session-sort and --window-sort flags. Sort by last-used, captured time, number of windows/panes, names, commands, or any combination.
Use --fzf-engine to replace the built-in TUI with fzf. Can be set at install time for a lighter binary; note that keyboard-driven session/window control is unavailable.
Autosave daemon mode periodically snapshots all sessions in the background, keeping session state safe across reboots. Only one autosave process runs at a time to avoid conflicts.
Bootstrap restore at tmux startup allows restoring the latest or a specific session automatically, useful for automation after startup.
Snapshot includes window and pane structure along with pane commands, enabling seamless reconstruction of your working environment. For example starting npm dev server, docker-compose, nvim, or any editor.
Optional shell pane scrollback capture lets you save and replay previous output, preserving context for restored sessions.
Configurable via an optional TOML config file (~/.config/lazy-tmux/lazy-tmux.toml): set a restore command allowlist so only trusted programs are replayed, tune the restore settle timeout, scrollback, autosave interval and storage paths.
With the fzf backend, --windows lists individual windows so you can fuzzy-jump straight to any window, not just a session.