Why can not I apply this theme

[lnxiaoy]

I follow your steps, and nothing happened, may i ask why your file with "#", does it makes any sence?

[gpakosz]

Hello,

Make sure you stop all tmux client and server processes.

Backup your existing .tmux.conf file and try again following the installation steps as per documented in README.md:

$ cd
$ rm -rf .tmux
$ git clone https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux.git
$ ln -s .tmux/.tmux.conf
$ cp .tmux/.tmux.conf.local .

About your "may i ask why your file with "#", does it makes any sence?" question, I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to.

In both Bash and tmux, # starts a comment and comment lines are ignored. Now there's a trick:

• the first line of .tmux.conf starts with # cat << ►_◄ > /dev/null and later in the file there's a line starting with # ►_◄. Those lines are both ignored by tmux, because they start with a #
• below the line starting with # ►_◄, all lines start with # and they will be ignored by tmux as well
• pay attention that those comment lines are in fact a whole shell script put behind comments, and it's important to notice all the lines start with # followed by a space.
• now if you run the cut -c3- ~/.tmux.conf command, you notice that it takes ~/.tmux.conf and removes the first 2 columns of the file
• removing the first 2 columns of the file transforms the valid tmux configuration file into a valid shell script
• when you pipe the result of cut -c3- ~/.tmux.conf to sh, your shell evaluates the cat << ►_◄ > /dev/null statement
  • remember, cut -c3- removed the first 2 columns, hence it removed the # characters
  • cat << ►_◄ > /dev/null is a classic HEREDOC, I just used fancy Unicode characters
  • after having run cut -c3-, everything between the first cat << ►_◄ > /dev/null and the ►_◄ line becomes an invalid truncated soup of tmux commands
  • but when your shell evaluates the cat << ►_◄ > /dev/null statement, all those truncated and invalid tmux commands are just sent to /dev/null and everything after the ►_◄ end of HEREDOC marker is a valid shell script

Hope that sheds some light to how it works.

[lnxiaoy]

Thank you for answering my question, my English is very poor, thank you for your patience;
now, I try this:

1. I change into TMUX mode, and type Ctrl + b + m, and it displays "mouse mode : on", it seems it does work
2. but i run "cut -c3- ~/.tmux.conf | sh -s apply_configuration" it displays "unkwon opration pane-borde-style"
   can you help me to fix this? thank you very much, i'm not get used to markdown.......

[gpakosz]

Which version of tmux are you using?

My configuration only works with tmux 1.9, 2.0 or 2.1+ . If you use tmux 1.9 or 2.0, use the corresponding branch of the configuration.

[lnxiaoy]

I did it! I just use vertion 1.8, so,I update to lastest version , your configure have shown, thank you very much