Terminate the tmux server entirely.
Section: Common problems and fixes
Restart the tmux server
bash
bash
tmux kill-serverExplanation
Nuclear option for clearing server-wide state; it ends all sessions.
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Set a modern default terminal
Use a terminal definition with 256-color/feature support.
Preserve selected environment variables
Update tmux with variables from the client environment.
Reload config with shell tracing
Verify config sourcing from a shell wrapper.