The best and greatest tmux.conf ever

tmux.conf

# 0 is too far from ` ;)
set -g base-index 1

# Automatically set window title
set-window-option -g automatic-rename on
set-option -g set-titles on

#set -g default-terminal screen-256color
set -g status-keys vi
set -g history-limit 10000

setw -g mode-keys vi
setw -g mode-mouse on
setw -g monitor-activity on

bind-key v split-window -h
bind-key s split-window -v

bind-key J resize-pane -D 5
bind-key K resize-pane -U 5
bind-key H resize-pane -L 5
bind-key L resize-pane -R 5

bind-key M-j resize-pane -D
bind-key M-k resize-pane -U
bind-key M-h resize-pane -L
bind-key M-l resize-pane -R

# Vim style pane selection
bind h select-pane -L
bind j select-pane -D 
bind k select-pane -U
bind l select-pane -R

# Use Alt-vim keys without prefix key to switch panes
bind -n M-h select-pane -L
bind -n M-j select-pane -D 
bind -n M-k select-pane -U
bind -n M-l select-pane -R

# Use Alt-arrow keys without prefix key to switch panes
bind -n M-Left select-pane -L
bind -n M-Right select-pane -R
bind -n M-Up select-pane -U
bind -n M-Down select-pane -D

# Shift arrow to switch windows
bind -n S-Left  previous-window
bind -n S-Right next-window

# No delay for escape key press
set -sg escape-time 0

# Reload tmux config
bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf

# THEME
set -g status-bg black
set -g status-fg white
set -g window-status-current-bg white
set -g window-status-current-fg black
set -g window-status-current-attr bold
set -g status-interval 60
set -g status-left-length 30
set -g status-left '#[fg=green](#S) #(whoami)'
set -g status-right '#[fg=yellow]#(cut -d " " -f 1-3 /proc/loadavg)#[default] #[fg=white]%H:%M#[default]'

Shift arrow to switch windows works a treat, cheers.

But the "Alt-arrow keys without prefix key to switch panes" I can't seem to get working?
I'm on OSX, iTerm2, and no matter what key I hold plus arrow, it doesn't switch panes?

@IanVaughan I have been experiencing the same issue on mac - it is explained here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/109293/editing-with-nano-alt-is-caught-by-the-window-menus-how-can-i-fix-that

I am not sure if there is a workaround but I am just going to stick with esc instead of alt in tmux for now

Most interesting. I should share my own .tmux.conf. :) In fact, tmux and tmuxinator is something I use all the time, and is an unbeatable combination.

In fact, I should not only share my tmux, but also my emacs config and bash setup. If anyone's interested, please let me know.

Sorry , am new to tmux. I used this file in my Mac. Some of them doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

In case anyone uses this for 2.9a versions and later and it doesn't work. This is the update needed
set -g window-status-current-style bg=white,fg=black,bold

Use Alt-arrow keys without prefix key to switch panes

bind -n M-Left select-pane -L
bind -n M-Right select-pane -R
bind -n M-Up select-pane -U
bind -n M-Down select-pane -D

These don't work in MAC OSX. Please help!

Use Alt-arrow keys without prefix key to switch panes

bind -n M-Left select-pane -L
bind -n M-Right select-pane -R
bind -n M-Up select-pane -U
bind -n M-Down select-pane -D

These don't work in MAC OSX. Please help!

@schadha17 you could try this instead, provided you don't already use these keys within tmux:
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 bind -n Home select-pane -L

 bind -n End select-pane -R

 bind -n Pageup select-pane -U

 bind -n Pagedown select-pane -D

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(They are the arrow keys but using 'fn' instead. The 'M' (alt) key does not really play ball with any shortcuts inside of tmux or text editors seemingly - see my above comment)

Looks great man. I cannot however for the love of my life understand how i can paste text from clipboard into nano or vim using this conf. Can anyone please help me?

Looks great man. I cannot however for the love of my life understand how i can paste text from clipboard into nano or vim using this conf. Can anyone please help me?

Use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste in terminal (vim or nano)

Looks great man. I cannot however for the love of my life understand how i can paste text from clipboard into nano or vim using this conf. Can anyone please help me?

Try Shift-Insert to paste.

Looks great man. I cannot however for the love of my life understand how i can paste text from clipboard into nano or vim using this conf. Can anyone please help me?

Try press the Shift before you paste your text.

Not having a success getting the window switching to work.
Any suggestions for a Tmux 2.4 newb?

# Shift arrow to switch windows
bind -n S-Left  previous-window
bind -n S-Right next-window

I have the same question, anyone help?

set -g window-status-current-style bg=white,fg=black,bold

Thanks man !

Can someone explain about the bottom right status information.
What is being displayed there with time?

BTW the its the best conf!
Thanks man

Can someone explain about the bottom right status information.
What is being displayed there with time?

BTW the its the best conf!
Thanks man

I believe it's CPU load

yeah figured its /proc/loadavg

Thank you for sharing! For those poor souls, like me, who have found themselves beating their heads against the wall (or other hard surfaces) after trying an unholy amounts [ and combinations ] of key bindings, including reserving to utilizing AutoHotKey scripts, while utilizing Windows Terminal - there is a cure!

You will have to un-bind the default actions from the key combinations in the settings.json. Example :

{ "command": { "action": "", "input": "" }, "keys": [ "alt+up" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "", "input": "" }, "keys": [ "alt+down" ] }

I am not sure if it works on all versions (in my case, version 1.2.2381.0). However, hopefully this tip will give the suffering individuals a direction at root of the cause => to check if their CLI/Terminal app is hijacking the commands.

Cheers.

mode-mouse option is no more availble in new version. Instead you can use set -g mouse on at line 13.

I love this thread. Thank you so much @premanuj, @juvenal, @spicycode 🙇‍♂️

Posted 9 years ago, and still the best game in town !

This conf. is almost perfect, it only needs the copy/paste feature, so for anybody reading this hopefully this spares you some time searching :

# Enable mouse & Copy/Paste - Requirements: xclip  
set -g mouse on 
bind -n WheelUpPane if-shell -F -t = "#{mouse_any_flag}" "send-keys -M" "if -Ft= '#{pane_in_mode}' 'send-keys -M' 'select-pane -t=; copy-mode -e; send-keys -M'"
bind -n WheelDownPane select-pane -t= \; send-keys -M
bind -n C-WheelUpPane select-pane -t= \; copy-mode -e \; send-keys -M
bind -T copy-mode-vi    C-WheelUpPane   send-keys -X halfpage-up
bind -T copy-mode-vi    C-WheelDownPane send-keys -X halfpage-down
bind -T copy-mode-emacs C-WheelUpPane   send-keys -X halfpage-up
bind -T copy-mode-emacs C-WheelDownPane send-keys -X halfpage-down
# # Use vim keybindings in copy mode
setw -g mode-keys vi
# Update default binding of `Enter` to also use copy-pipe
unbind -T copy-mode-vi Enter
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xclip -selection c"
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "xclip -in -selection clipboard"

Source : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/318281/how-to-copy-and-paste-with-a-mouse-with-tmux

I've been using tmux for about 12 years, and I was today years old that I even thought to remap selecting panes. Omg this gist is amazing.

Pretty nice, but rescaling with hjkl is suboptimal.
My proposition: use -r C-{hjkl} to allow resizing by holding ctrl and pressing b+jjj (-r indicate repeatable key )

bind-key -r C-j resize-pane -D
bind-key -r C-k resize-pane -U
bind-key -r C-h resize-pane -L
bind-key -r C-l resize-pane -R

Also adding -r to the walk bindings improves my work routine a lot. 😏

The only problem I had was that the left and right arrow keys send b and f respectively, so I did this:

# Use Alt-arrow keys without prefix key to switch panes
bind -n M-b select-pane -L
bind -n M-f select-pane -R
# ....

This might fix what @schadha17 and @IanVaughan are facing?

Very cool. How about set -g mouse-select-pane to allow selecting panes using the mouse? (1.8)

Very cool. How about set -g mouse-select-pane to allow selecting panes using the mouse? (1.8)
works in xterm, however not in linux consoles

Very cool. How about set -g mouse-select-pane to allow selecting panes using the mouse? (1.8)

works in xterm, however not in linux consoles

Okay, thanks for the info. That was not in my focus.

Sadly I found mouse-select-pane broke my ability to copy/paste with my urxvt+Vim combo

Incompatible with tmux >= 2.9 (invalid option errors).
Related: tmux/tmux#1689

Hey guys, I'm back in Linux after 10+ yrs and this site...Great stuff! I need help w/TMUX, as it has really helped out w/SSD testing and debug, even though I'd only use it occasionally. But now I'm at Ricoh, and I've got 20+ dev machines to use. I need help with where to place my tmux.conf or how to set environment (Linux) so I can source (source ~/.tmux.conf) when I've done mods to that file...Please can you help??

invalid option: mode-mouse
invalid option: window-status-current-bg
invalid option: window-status-current-fg
invalid option: window-status-current-attr

Looks like some of these option names have changed over time. For example, window-status-current-bg looks like:

set-window-option -g window-status-current-style bg=default