tmux in cygwin - open terminal failed: not a terminal

[junkdog]

It appears other have managed to get tmux working in cmder before (#56), but when I run it, I get

adrian@demonbook ~
$ echo $TERM
cygwin

adrian@demonbook ~
$ tmux
open terminal failed: not a terminal

adrian@demonbook ~
$ TERM=xterm tmux
open terminal failed: not a terminal

Is there a work-around to coax tmux into being happy again? As for cygwin, I followed the instructions on the wiki

[kostrse]

Having the same problem.

[shkm]

+1

[MartiUK]

tmux doesn't exactly work in conemu, when using this method. Tmux is a bit finicky with what terminal it wants, especially if it's on a non-Unix system.

Try setting up a new task except have it run
C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - (If you installed it in the default location)

Where it should work.

If you don't want to do that, may I suggest GNU Screen?