How to change the position of pane in Tmux

To change pane 4 to pane 3 after pane 3 exits: C-b { move the current pane to the previous position Here are more shortcuts for moving panes around: C-b } move the current pane to the next position C-b C-o rotate window ‘up’ (i.e. move all panes) C-b M-o rotate window ‘down’ C-b ! … Read more

tmux man-page search highlighting

Based on Less Colors For Man Pages by Gen2ly, here is my man page and how to do it: Preview This is a shell, not a web page ! How to (optional) I’m using Tomorrow theme for Konsole/Yakuake ; Edit your ~/.bashrc ~/.zshrc, etc. to add : # Colored man pages: http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/less-colors-for-man-pages/ # Less Colors … Read more

Multiple tmux prefix key combos?

Starting with tmux 1.6, you can use the session option prefix2 to specify a second prefix key (e.g. in ~/.tmux.conf): set-option -g prefix ` set-option -g prefix2 C-a Note: If you have any bindings or script that use the send-prefix, you can use its -2 option to send the key assigned to prefix2: send-prefix -2. … Read more

How do I start tmux with my current environment? [closed]

You should configure the tmux session option update-environment to include the variables you want to be updated when creating new sessions. The default value includes several common X11 and SSH variables: DISPLAY SSH_ASKPASS SSH_AUTH_SOCK SSH_AGENT_PID SSH_CONNECTION WINDOWID XAUTHORITY To add your variables, use the set-option tmux command with its -g and -a flags (append to … Read more

Select Pane with C- in tmux

Not exactly the way you are looking for, but I doubt you have a reason not to love the following: display-panes or the likes (<prefix> + q by default), enter the number of the pane you are switching to.

TMUX setting environment variables for sessions

I figured out a way to do this. I’m using tmux 2.5. Background In the tmux man page, it states that there are two groups of environment variables: global and per-session. When you create a new tmux session, it will merge the two groups together and that becomes the set of environment variables available within … Read more

give a hint when press prefix key in tmux

The development version of tmux has support for this, so the next release (1.8?) should also support it. There have been two changes that can be combined to indicate in your status line whether a prefix key has been pressed: You can include the extended “format” replacements in the values of the “status” options. These … Read more