Feature request: allow percentage for "tmux set-window-option main-pane-height"

[trevordmiller]

Currently I'm using
tmux set-window-option main-pane-height 30
along with
tmux select-layout main-horizontal
to create this:

This works well for my main monitor but not as well on smaller screens; it would be great if I could use a percentage so that the non-main panes take up 1/3 or 33% height of the entire terminal or something.

Thank you for the great work. tmux is amazing.

[nicm]

You could write a script and run that instead of selectl, something like:

tmux selectl main-horizontal
Y=$(expr $(tmux display -p '#{window_height}') / 3)
tmux resizep -t:.0 -y $Y

[trevordmiller]

Ok thanks

[trevordmiller]

Worked great! Thank you. Here is the diff for anyone else that may need it:
https://github.com/trevordmiller/settings/commit/83799626451d76655f4ac0a4c97eb9dd2c52ea9d

[tony]

I made a script for handling this at https://github.com/tony/tmux-config/blob/5b348ee/scripts/resize-adaptable.sh. I also wrote a blog post about it at https://devel.tech/tips/n/tMuXrSz9/resize-tmux-main-panes-by-percentage/ and linked this issue up.

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