Tmux: Mac "say" not working in tmux session

Created on 11 Jan 2017 · 4Comments · Source: tmux/tmux

Not entirely sure if this is an issue with tmux or this requires special config, but when I run say -v "Alex" "Hello, World!" from Terminal or iTerm outside of Tmux, it works just fine. But when I try and run it from within a Tmux session, it simply hangs and does nothing.

Anyone else ever encounter this? Looks around and couldn't find any previous issues, etc.

Thanks.

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geoherna

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Works for me. Make sure you the reattach-to-user-namespace program installed and add lines like the following to your ~/.tmux.conf (obviously changing the shell to whatever you prefer):

# The reattach-to-user-namespace is necessary to be able to contact ssh-agent
# via the SSH_AUTH_SOCK env var. This is also necessary to make pasteboard
# (clipboard) interaction work for programs run within the tmux server.
set-option -g default-command "exec reattach-to-user-namespace -l /usr/local/bin/fish"

krader1961 on 11 Jan 2017

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Works for me. Make sure you the reattach-to-user-namespace program installed and add lines like the following to your ~/.tmux.conf (obviously changing the shell to whatever you prefer):

# The reattach-to-user-namespace is necessary to be able to contact ssh-agent
# via the SSH_AUTH_SOCK env var. This is also necessary to make pasteboard
# (clipboard) interaction work for programs run within the tmux server.
set-option -g default-command "exec reattach-to-user-namespace -l /usr/local/bin/fish"

krader1961 on 11 Jan 2017

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This is an Apple problem not a tmux problem. I am closing this but continue to reply here if you wish.