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:green_book: Example tmux configuration - screen + vim key-bindings, system stat, cpu load bar.

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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.
New to tmux? The Tao of tmux_ is now available on Leanpub and Amazon Kindle. Read and browse the book for on the web.

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

Other

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