I'll be real with you. Every time I had to work on Windows, I felt like something was missing. I'd reach for tmux out of muscle memory and then remember... it doesn't exist here. WSL kind of works, but it never felt right. It felt like a workaround, not a solution.



So I started building one. Took way longer than I expected. I wrote it in Rust, using Windows ConPTY directly. No WSL, no Cygwin, no MSYS2. Just a native terminal multiplexer that actually runs on Windows.



The thing I cared about most was making sure your existing .tmux.conf just works. I didn't want anyone to learn a new config format or give up their themes. Catppuccin, Dracula, Nord... they all load. You type \`tmux\` in PowerShell and it launches. 76 commands, full mouse support, vim copy-mode keys.

Worked very hard on providing full support for Themes and Plugins. Catppuccin/Dracula/Nord themes work. Made dedicated repos for that too.



I know there have been other attempts at this. I'm not here to trash any of them. I just wanted to build something that felt like real tmux, not a lookalike.



It's fully open source under MIT. You can install it with:



>**winget install psmux**



Or cargo install psmux, or through Scoop/Chocolatey.



I'm sharing this here because honestly, this community knows tmux better than anyone. If something feels off, or if I got something wrong, I want to hear it. That kind of feedback is worth more to me than stars on GitHub.



[https://github.com/psmux/psmux](https://github.com/psmux/psmux)



Thanks for your time. Means a lot.

Your .tmux.conf now works on Windows. No WSL. No Cygwin