A new multiplexed world

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:20:05 +0000

And voila, I knew this was going to happen, I finally switched to tmux. I will not explain here why this software is better than GNU screen, simply put, tmux is now part of the base system of nearly all BSD derivative operating systems (NetBSD among them), and it makes my life easier.

Instead, I’ll point out here all the resources that helped me switching rather quickly:

Generic hands-on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmux
Commented example http://www.doknowevil.net/2010/10/18/sorry-screen-tmux-is-better-but-here-are-some-screen-lik-hotkeys/
Playing with the statusbar http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2011/06/10/setting-tmux-statusbar-if-in-x/, this author has other very good resources on the topic
Fixing the 256colors mess (without using tmux -2) http://benjaminthomas.org/2012-03-28/256-colors-in-tmux.html
Another well documented configuration file http://www.sheevaboite.fr/articles/show-me-your-tmux-conf
Screen-to-tmux helper (in french, but easy to comprehend) http://wiki.soolbox.net/wiki/SysadminTips/tmux
Very well written customization guide http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2/ (author has also written a comprehensive guide on how to basically use tmux)
Enable mouse pane focus and resize http://tangledhelix.com/blog/2012/07/16/tmux-and-mouse-mode/

Here’s my ~/.tmux.conf, which is pretty much the standard screen-keys.conf available with the package, with only some small customizations like the status bar and some fixes:

Tmux on iMil.net

A new multiplexed world