tmux.md

TMUX

tmux is installed by default by the install script.
Note that tmux package version seems to be linked to ubuntu version, meaning Ubuntu seems to not update their tmux package until they also create a new distro...

Table of Contents

• .bashrc
• tmux config and mouse support
• tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

.bashrc

Add to .bashrc_extras to start up mtux with the current session name as tmux session name
Thanks to reddit/user/SooperBoby/

### TMUX AUTOMATIC LAUNCH ###
if [ -z "$TMUX" -a "$TERM_PROGRAM" != "vscode" ] ; then

	TERMINAL_EMULATOR="$(basename $(tty))"
	TERMINAL_EMULATOR=${TERMINAL_EMULATOR^^} # Uppercase all letters

	TERMINAL_PROCESS="$(ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$))"

	if [ -x "$TERMINAL_PROCESS" ] ; then
		TERMINAL_EMULATOR=$(basename "$TERMINAL_PROCESS")
		TERMINAL_EMULATOR=${TERMINAL_EMULATOR^} # Uppercase first letter
	elif [ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ] || [ -n "$SSH_TTY" ]; then
		TERMINAL_EMULATOR="SSH"
	fi

	for i in $(seq -w 1 100) ; do
		if [ "$i" -eq 001 ] ; then
			SESSION_NAME="$TERMINAL_EMULATOR"
		else
			SESSION_NAME="$TERMINAL_EMULATOR-$i"
		fi

		if (exec tmux new -s "$SESSION_NAME") ; then
			break
		fi
	done
fi
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.tmux.conf

Reload config

To make tmux read changes in the config file then you have two options:

• Restart the tmux server $ tmux kill-server then restart a new tmux session
• Reload the config file from inside tmux by CTRL+B then press : to bring up tmux command prompt and run source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Mouse support

To enable mouse support by default then add the following to the tmux config file .tmux.conf

# Enable mouse support
set -g mouse on