Start tmux and execute a set of commands on boot

Question

I'm trying to find a way to have tmux start for a specific user on boot. The tmux session should run two Python scripts.

I think I could start Python as mentioned here, but I'd rather have it in a tmux session.

Is that possible and how could I accomplish that?

Solution

In my case, I have a user account just for the purpose of running one single script, so I provide a default tmux configuration in that user's home directory by creating a file ~/.tmux.conf

My ~/.tmux.conf file looks (roughly) like this:

new-session -d -s MYSESSIONNAME
set -g status off
new-window ~/my-startup-script.sh

my-startup-script.sh needs to have the +x permission set, obviously.

To start the ~/.tmux.conf tmux script, issue the command

tmux start-server

Comments

[Valentyn]

How can I test if this works? I have created a ~/.tmux.conf file with just one line 'new-session -d -s tower', when I run 'tmux start-server', nothing happens. I don't see any new session created with 'tmux ls'.

[am05mhz]

when system rebooted, does the tmux auto start session run under root user or else?