Depending on your meaning: $ tmux detach $ tmux attach This will deattach and reattach a tmux session. You can type ``tmux detach`` inside a tmux pane

Depending on your meaning: $ tmux detach $ tmux attach This will deattach and reattach a tmux session. You can type ``tmux detach`` inside a tmux pane of the session you want to detach. Also the key combo ``Ctrl-b d`` will detach. If you mean a way to save the workspace configuration, tmuxp, teamocil and tmuxinator are great solutions. (Note, I wrote tmuxp as a python project a few months ago.)