Installation

git clone https://github.com/alberanid/tmux-config.git ~/.tmux
ln -s ~/.tmux/tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
cd ~/.tmux
git submodule init
git submodule update
# now run tmux and press ctrl+a I

Requirements

tmux 1.9 or later. An unofficial Ubuntu 14.04 backport can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~pi-rho/+archive/ubuntu/dev

Main commands and shortcuts

The default ctrl+b escape is remapped to ctrl+a.

Layout (tmux-resurrect):

• ctrl+a ctrl+s save current layout (window, splits, working directories, ...)
• ctrl+a ctrl+r restore saved layout

Windows:

• ctrl+a c to create a window
• ctrl+a X to change window (where X is window's number)
• ctrl+a , to rename a window

Splits:

• ctrl+a v split vertically
• ctrl+a s split horizontally
• ctrl+a Left/Right/Up/Down move to another split
• ctrl+a ctrl+Left/Right/Up/Down resize split
• ctrl+a <SPACE> convert a vertical split to horizontal and vice-versa

Copy mode:

• ctrl+a [ enter copy mode (ctrl+a PageUp to move immediately)
• ctrl+<space> begin to copy
• ctrl+w copy selected text
• ctrl+a ] paste copied text
• ESC quit copy mode

Sessions:

• ctrl+a d detach
• tmux new [-s name] start a new session
• tmux a [-t name] attach to a session
• tmux ls list sessions
• kill-session -t name kill a session

Author and license

Davide Alberani <da@erlug.linux.it> (C) 2016-2019
Released under the terms of the CC BY-SA license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/