Is there a way to customize the configuration of tmux?
Customizing tmux is as easy as editing a text file. tmux uses a file called tmux.conf to store its configuration. If you store that file as ~/.tmux.conf (Note: there’s a period as the first character in the file name. It’s a hidden file) tmux will pick this configuration file for your current user.
Where do I Find my tmux conf file?
Customizing tmux. Customizing tmux is as easy as editing a text file. tmux uses a file called tmux.conf to store its configuration. If you store that file as ~/.tmux.conf (Note: there’s a period as the first character in the file name. It’s a hidden file) tmux will pick this configuration file for your current user.
How can I set tmux to mouse mode?
Mouse mode allows you to set the active window, set the active pane, resize panes and automatically switches to copy-mode to select text. tmux may be controlled from an attached client by using a key combination of a prefix key, followed by a command key. This configuration uses C-a as a secondary prefix while keeping C-b as the default prefix.
What to do with the status bar in tmux?
The man page has very detailed descriptions of all of the various options (the status bar is highly configurable). Your best bet is to read through man tmux and pay particular attention to those options that begin with status-. So, for example, status-bg red would set the background colour of the bar.
Is there a way to resize the tmux panes?
Resizing tmux panes. To resize tmux panes, you’ll first want to hit your prefix — ctrl + b by default — and then the colon key :. What this does is brings up a prompt at the bottom of your screen. Now you’ll want to type in resize-pane in the prompt, followed by a hyphen – and either D, U, L, R.
Why does tmux update the title of the window?
By default tmux will update the window title automatically depending on the last executed command within that window. In order to prevent tmux from overriding my wisely chosen window names I want to suppress this behavior: Changing the colors and design of tmux is a little more complex than what I’ve presented so far.