tmux is a terminal multiplexer.

• Requires tmux 3.2+ (best experience on 3.4+).
• Support for tmux-mem-cpu-load.
• Prefix mapped to Ctrl-A for screen users.

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Want more tmux? Check out the libtmux python library for controlling tmux, and load your code projects via YAML/JSON with tmuxp.

Share your .dot-configs

Have a tmux configuration you'd like to share? Whether a fork of this project, another's, or your own, submit it to awesome-tmux-configs.

Installation

Download:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/tony/tmux-config.git ~/.tmux

Copy tmux config to home:

ln -s ~/.tmux/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf

Go to config dir:

cd ~/.tmux

Stats

tmux-mem-cpu-load

Works on Linux and OS X.

Prep ourself to download submodule (if you forgot --recursive when cloning):

git submodule init

Download submodule:

git submodule update

Change dir to tmux-mem-cpu-load:

cd ~/.tmux/vendor/tmux-mem-cpu-load

Make _build directory and cd into it:

mkdir _build; cd _build

General make file:

cmake ..

Compile binary:

make

Install our binary to /usr/local/bin/tmux-mem-cpu-load:

sudo make install

(No need to do sudo if on OS X / macOS)

Go home:

cd ~

Launch tmux:

tmux

And press Control + a then d to go back to the terminal.

Update config:

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Powerline (Advanced)

You can add suport for powerline by adding these to your ~/.tmux.conf. Be sure to grab and install powerline-fonts for your system.

See Powerline on ReadTheDocs.org for more info.

Start tmux

To start a session:

tmux

To reattach a previous session:

tmux attach

To reload config file

<Control + a>: then source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Commands

Our prefix/leader key is Control + a now (just like the screen multiplexer). This sequence must be typed before any tmux shortcut.

• Control + a before any command
• Control + a then ? to bring up list of keyboard shortcuts (with descriptions)
• Control + a then " to split window horizontally
• Control + a then v to split window vertically
• Control + a then <Space> to open quick-action menu
• Control + a then o to rotate panes
• Control + a then h, j, k, l to move left, down, up, right (vim hjkl)
• Control + a then ; to go to last panel

Beyond your first window:

• Control + a then c to create a new window
• Control + a then n to next window
• Control + a then p to previous window
• Control + a then [0-9] move to window number
• Control + a then & to kill window

Custom:

• Control + a then m to switch to main-horizontal layout with the main pane at 66% height.
• Control + a then M to switch to main-vertical layout with the main pane at 50% width.
• Control + a then t to open a popup shell (80% of screen, 3.2+).
• Control + a then g to open a popup with git log --oneline --graph (3.2+).

More configs / Tools

• Save / Load your tmux workspaces through JSON or YAML with tmuxp.
• Clone + Synchronize your git / hg / svn projects through JSON / YAML with vcspull.
• Modular, Lazy-loading vim configuration with support for C, C++, Python, Go and Javascript with tony/vim-config
• Modular dot-config example tony/.dot-config

Other

• Github: http://www.github.com/tony
• Website: http://www.git-pull.com
• LICENSE: MIT
• Author: Tony Narlock (tony@git-pull.com)