How to give focus to a particular pane/window

[emayssat-ms]

I can create tmux sessions with multiple multiple windows and multiple panes.
But how can I set the default windows to be the 2nd one, and the pane with focus on each windows to be the one I want (at 'tmuxinator start' of course).
I assume those are tmux commands, but could not find anything there related to focus.

Please help,

[emayssat-ms]

...

first:
  panes:
    first:
     - tmux select-window -t 2
     - tmux select-pane -t 1
     - clear

But that doesn't seem to work reliably...

[bbugyi200]

To specify the startup window, you can use the startup_window option (check the README). I couldn't find a analagous option for selecting a startup pane on each window; however, I think you might want to adjust your workaround to use just tmux select-pane -t [W].[P], where W is the window number and P is the pane number of whichever pane you want to focus on window W. This seems to be working reliably for me to set startup panes on each window.

[rightaway]

Are maintainers interested in this feature? Something like focus: true under the pane object?

[ethagnawl]

There's already an option to apply focus to one particular pane in the startup_window (which is either specified or set by default).

For instance:

project_name: focus
startup_window: 1
startup_pane: 1
...

This should be in the sample.yml in the README, so I will create an issue to track adding it.

I'm going to close this issue for now, but please feel free to re-open if anyone thinks there's anything else worth discussing.