Minimal Working Tmux Config
2020-03-15T20:33:04Z
Minimal working tmux config
Populate $HOME/.tmux.conf with following contents
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
set -g history-limit 99999
# setw -g status-utf8 on
# status line background colour will be the colour of terminal in background
set -g status-bg default
setw -g display-time 5000
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# settings for TMUX widnows status decorations #
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# status format for both last-active-window and all the windows before last-active
# commas are escaped using # char in below statement. i.e #, => escapes comma. Below 5 lines are actually one line broke up into 5
setw -g window-status-format "#{\
?window_last_flag,\
#[bold #, bg=colour226 #, fg=colour232] #I.#P #W ,\
#[bold #, bg=colour124 #, fg=colour232] #I.#P #W \
}"
# status format for current active window
setw -g window-status-current-format "#[bold #, bg=colour77 #, fg=colour232] #I.#P#F #W "
setw -g window-status-separator " "
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# settings for TMUX pane status decorations #
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setw -g pane-border-status top
# we do not need bg colour here as we want the bg colour to be the colour of the terminal, therefore bg is set to default. We may even omit bg here.
# set the colouring of border for current active pane
setw -g pane-active-border-style bg=default,fg=colour81
# we cannot have space after the comma here.
# set the colouring of border for non-current pane
setw -g pane-border-style bg=default,fg=colour180
# commas are escaped using # char in below statement. i.e #, => escapes , . Below 5 lines are actually one line broke up into 5
# two different colour schemes for current and all non-current panes TEXT
setw -g pane-border-format "#{\
?pane_active,\
#[bold #, bg=colour81 #, fg=colour16] ~>> #I.#P #T <<~ ,\
#[bg=colour180 #, fg=colour16] #I.#P #T \
}"
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# Other settings #
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set -g allow-rename off
set -g mode-keys vi
set-option -g mouse onLaunch tmux
Note: -u is specified for terminals where locale is not set to UTF-8 Note To change the title of pane run this command ctrl-b :select-pane -T MyTitle