Is this a feature in 2.0? It doesn't seem to work for me - I still see a large part of my terminal window filled with the dots, since the other session's terminal window is much smaller.
Ah, I forgot to mention: the resize -if the terminal-window is smaller- will still happen, but as long as the two sessions are operating on a different window they can be of different size.
Terminal A: 300x10 lines (long across, but short)
Terminal B: 120x30 lines (standard new terminal size)
I have a tmux session running in A; I open terminal B, and attach to it with -new-session. My first pane is trimmed to the height of Terminal A.
If I do prefix-c (create new pane), the new pane is now the size of Terminal B - hurray!
But if I open Terminal C, which is yet another size, and attach to my existing session, it resizes every pane in Terminal B to the size of Terminal C; and when I disconnect from Terminal C, those panes do not appear to switch back to what they now should be, unconstrained by Terminal C.
(If I didn't explain this clearly, I can provide some screenshots later.)