1.6. TMUX - Desktop

Tmux is Terminal MUlti-pleXer. It needs some custom settings to make it:

These are my “easier to use commands”:

Keys

Meaning

tmux

Start a terminal multiplexer session

Alt-r

Reload tmux.conf

Alt-b

Split horizontal

Alt-v

Split vertical

Mouse click pane

Move from one pane to another

Alt-{h, j, k, l}

Move from one pane to another {up, down, left, right}

Alt-c

Close pane

Alt-w

New window

Alt-PAGEUP

Previous window

Alt-PAGEDOWN

Next window

Alt-e

Kill window

Alt-x

Kill server

Ctrl-a ctrl-r

Resore session

Ctrl-a ctrl-s

Save session

Hold shift and highlight

Copy

Hold shift and middle mouse

Paste

The configuration file implements this easier to use and look better requirements:

1.6.1. Edit config files

https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/

override system /etc/tmux.conf with ~/.tmux.conf

1.6.2. Tmux conf

#########
# GENERAL
#########

# set prompt colours
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
set -ga terminal-overrides ",xterm-256color:Tc"

# remap prefix from 'control-b' to 'control-a'
unbind C-b
set-option -g prefix C-a
bind-key C-a send-prefix

# reload config file (control-a r)
bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf \; display "Config Reloaded!"

# reload config file (alt r)
bind -n M-r source-file ~/.tmux.conf \; display "Config Reloaded!"

#######
# PANES
#######

# horizontal and vertical pane splitting via meta
bind -n M-b split-window -h
bind -n M-v split-window -v

# Enable mouse control (clickable windows, panes, resizable panes)
set -g mouse on

# vim-style pane movements
bind -n M-h select-pane -L
bind -n M-l select-pane -R
bind -n M-k select-pane -U
bind -n M-j select-pane -D

# close pane
bind -n M-c kill-pane

#########
# WINDOWS
#########

# new window
bind -n M-w new-window

# previous window
bind -n M-PAGEUP previous-window

# next window
bind -n M-PAGEDOWN next-window

# exit window
bind -n M-e kill-window

########
# SERVER
########

# kill server
bind -n M-x kill-server

#######
# THEME
#######

# theme
source-file "${HOME}/.tmux-themepack/powerline/double/green.tmuxtheme"

###########
# RESSURECT
###########

# ressurect
run-shell ~/Tmux/resurrect.tmux

# save session
set -g @resurrect-save 's'

# restore session
set -g @resurrect-restore 'a'

1.6.3. TMUX theme

git clone https://github.com/jimeh/tmux-themepack.git ~/.tmux-themepack

Change font color to 100 on line 32 of green,tmuxtheme

set -g window-status-current-format “#[fg=colour233,bg=black]#[fg=colour100,nobold] #I:#W#F #[fg=colour233,bg=black,nobold]”

1.6.4. Powerline fonts

Most recent version of the symbol font:

copied powerline-symbols.ttf from laptop

Move the font to your fonts directory:

sudo mv powerline-symbols.ttf /usr/share/fonts/

Update system wide cache:

sudo fc-cache -vf /usr/share/fonts/

Now install the fontconfig file:

wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf

Font config file:

sudo mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

1.6.5. TMUX Resurrect

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect ~/Tmux

run-shell ~/Tmux/resurrect.tmux