# libtmux::ConnectionOptions

- **Module:** libtmux
- **Package:** libtmux-cxx
- **Language:** C++
- **Kind:** struct
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-cxx/blob/393d4b0ad666f18a6581f1eb281741a75a7503f0/include/libtmux/control.hpp#L116
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/cxx/latest/reference/libtmux-connectionoptions/

How to start a control-mode connection, and what it is allowed to buffer.

Two of these cannot be changed later because tmux cannot: whether pane output is delivered at all is fixed when the connection starts, and the decoder's bounds belong to the decoder rather than to whatever reads it.

## Members

- `tmux_binary` (attribute)
- `socket_path` (attribute)
- `session_name` (attribute)
- `startup_timeout` (attribute)
- `shutdown_timeout` (attribute)
- `retained_reply_bytes` (attribute): Passed to the decoder.
- `line_bytes` (attribute)
- `pane_output` (attribute): Deliver `output` for every pane, as notifications.
- `pause_after` (attribute): Discard a pane's queued output once it is this far behind, and say so with `pause`.