i am using i3wm and guake. I always use tmux inside guake to have split functionality detach function etc is there a way to start guake by default tmux running ?
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You can set tmux on Guake Preferences (guake-prefs): 
Or use friendly Byobu, which use tmux as default backend (change this with byobu-select-backend). Take a look at my answer here if you prefer this way.
Do you start guake automatically with your Desktop-session? Then yes write in $HOME/.config/autostart/guake.desktop by the Key Exec Exec=guake -e tmux If not cp /usr/share/applications/guake.desktop $HOME/.local/share/applications/guake.desktop and make the change there.
- i was starting it using i3 config file so guake -e tmux did the job :)nikoss– nikoss2016-12-06 14:50:19 +00:00Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 14:50
Tmux as default shell interpreter for guake doesn't attach to any existing session and creates always new. I wanted it to attach to existing session to prevent multiplications of sessions since I use resurrect and continuum plugins.
I've put tmux attach to guake startup setting. I've left guake configured with default user-shell. So in case of crash of guake or something similar, I can just type tmux attach in default shell and continue where I left of.
guake -e 'tmux attach' To force tmux to start new session if there is no current session I've placed next line into ~/.tmux.conf file
new-session 
This is how I do it. In my .bashrc, I append to the end...
tmux attach || tmux; clear That will start tmux detaching the last session or opening a new one and then clearing the screen.
