.tmux.conf

Self-contained, pretty and versatile .tmux.conf configuration file.

Therminal color configurations

Normal colors:

black:   '#000000'
red:     '#CC3E28'
green:   '#216609'
yellow:  '#B58900'
blue:    '#1E6FCC'
magenta: '#5C21A5'
cyan:    '#158C86'
white:   '#AAAAAA'

Bright colors

black:   '#555555'
red:     '#CC3E28'
green:   '#216609'
yellow:  '#B58900'
blue:    '#1E6FCC'
magenta: '#5C21A5'
cyan:    '#158C86'
white:   '#AAAAAA'

Installation

Requirements:

• tmux >= 3.0 running inside Linux
• outside of tmux, $TERM must be set to xterm-256color

Installation

⚠️ Before installing, you may want to backup your existing configuration.

1. Clone this repository
2. Copy .tmux.conf to your home directory
3. Run tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Installing in ~:

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/ayanul/tmux.git
$ cp .tmux/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
// or create link
$ ln -s -f .tmux/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf

If you're a Vim user, setting the $EDITOR environment variable to vim will enable and further customize the vi-style key bindings (see tmux manual).

If you're new to tmux, I recommend you to read Welcome to tmux!.

Bindings

tmux may be controlled from an attached client by using a key combination of a prefix key, followed by a command key. This configuration uses C-a as a secondary prefix while keeping C-b as the default prefix. In the following list of key bindings:

• <prefix> means you have to either hit Ctrl + a or Ctrl + b
• <prefix> c means you have to hit Ctrl + a or Ctrl + b followed by c
• <prefix> C-c means you have to hit Ctrl + a or Ctrl + b followed by Ctrl + c

The following custom configurations are used:

Key Binding	Command	Action
<prefix> + a	send-prefix	Prefix key
<prefix> + e	setw synchronize-panes on	Synchronize panes on
<prefix> + E	setw synchronize-panes off	Synchronize panes off
<prefix> + R	refresh-client	Refresh client
<prefix> + r	source-file ~/.tmux.conf	Reloaded tmux config.
<prefix> + q	confirm-before kill-pane	Kill pane and window confirmation
<prefix> + Q	confirm-before kill-window	Kill pane and window confirmation
<prefix> + C-q	confirm-before kill-session	Kill session confirmation
<prefix> + M-t	new-session	New session
<prefix> + t	new-window	New window
<prefix> + c,C-t		New window with and split horizontally
<prefix> + _	split-window -l 20 -c "#{pane_current_path}" node	Open panel with NodeJS
<prefix> + g,C-g,_	split-window	Splits the current pane vertically
<prefix> + h,C-h,		split-window -h
<prefix> + n,C-n	next-window	Select the next window.
<prefix> + C-p	previous-window	Select the previous window (by default)
<prefix> + C-a	last-window	Select the last window
<prefix> + C-O	rotate-window	Rotate window
<prefix> + space	select-pane -t:.+	Select pane by mouse click
Ctrl + h,j,k,l	tmux select-pane -L,U,L,R	Let you navigate panes ala Vim
<prefix> + H,J,K,L	resize-pane -L,U,L,R 50	Resize the pane down by 50
<prefix> + up,down,leftright	resize-pane -L,U,L,R 5	Resize the pane down by 5
<prefix> + M-o	display-panes	display a visible indicator of each pane shown by target-client.
<prefix> + C-l		Clear console
<prefix> + b	list-buffers	List buffers
<prefix> + P	choose-buffer	Lets you choose the paste-buffer to paste from
<prefix> + x	delete-buffer	Delete buffer
<prefix> + ?		List key bindings (by default)

Additionally, copy-mode-vi matches my own Vim configuration

Bindings for copy-mode-vi:

• space begins selection / visual mode
• H jumps to the start of line
• L jumps to the end of line
• enter copies the selection to the top paste-buffer
• Escape cancels the current operation

Theme

The main colors are put in separate constants. The color chart is shown below.

color_orange="colour166" 
color_purple="colour135" 
color_green="colour076"  
color_blue="colour39"    
color_yellow="colour220"
color_red="colour160"
color_black="colour234"
color_white="colour253" 
color_gray="colour253"

The top panel is configured here

set -g status-left "$wg_session"
set -g status-right "#{prefix_highlight} $wg_is_keys_off $wg_is_zoomed #{sysstat_cpu} | #{sysstat_mem} | #{sysstat_swap} | #{sysstat_loadavg}"

You can use this table to customize the color

Plugins

prefix + I

• Installs new plugins from GitHub or any other git repository
• Refreshes TMUX environment

prefix + U

• updates plugin(s)

prefix + alt + u

• remove/uninstall plugins not on the plugin list

The following plugins are used

Plugin	Description	Link
tmux-plugins/tpm	Tmux Plugin Manager	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm
tmux-plugins/tmux-prefix-highlight	Highlight Tmux prefix key	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-prefix-highlight
tmux-plugins/tmux-open	Open highlighted file or url	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-open
samoshkin/tmux-plugin-sysstat	Show system stats in Tmux status bar	https://github.com/samoshkin/tmux-plugin-sysstat
tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat	Enhance Tmux search	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat
tmux-plugins/tmux-yank	Copy to system clipboard	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank
tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect	Save and restore Tmux sessions	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect
tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum	Continuous saving of Tmux environment	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum
tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible	Basic Tmux settings	https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible

Tips

You can output the stream to different panels (original post)

node app.js 1>/dev/pts/32 2>/dev/pts/37

1 - info output

2 - error output