This is my mouse wheel scroll config for 2.1:

# ** Wheel scroll in pane unbind -T root WheelUpPane unbind -T root WheelDownPane # Do mouse wheel-up to enter copy mode and do page-up # https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tmux-users/XTrSVUR15Zk/3iyJLMyQ7PwJ # Below works and allows the WheelUpPane binding in emacs-copy table to be effective bind -T root WheelUpPane if -Ft= '#{mouse_any_flag}' 'send-keys -M' 'if -Ft= "#{pane_in_mode}" "send-keys -M" "copy-mode -u"' # |---------------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------| # | using mouse? AND .. | #{pane_in_mode} (already in copy-mode?) | action | # |---------------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------| # | Yes | Don't care | Send the mode keys | # | No | Yes | Send the mode keys | # | No | No | Enable copy-mode and do PageUp | # |---------------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------|

# *** Wheel scroll in pane WHILE in copy-mode # Once in copy-mode, mouse wheel scrolls scrolls by half pages bind -temacs-copy WheelUpPane halfpage-up bind -temacs-copy WheelDownPane halfpage-down

You should change the options to something like:

setw -g window-status-style none,bg="colour18",fg="colour7"

There's an argument with a decent explanation here: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1689

I agree SourceForge is a pile of crap (since before they started hijacking projects), but apparently they can't live without ...something?:

http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/mailman/message/33827828/

> > I'm not particularly concerned about whether tmux moves to Github, but I'm curious what features SourceForge has that Github doesn't. > > https://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tickets/new/ > > Write. Give it about 15-20m of serious thought and effort. Grab various data points for your issue, esp links, log snippets. > > Ctrl-r

I have no idea what he's talking about because you need a SourceForge login to see it.

For large amounts of text, /u/mrcaptncrunch 's option to create a new file is the most efficient. If you only have a page or two of data, another thing you can try is to use a different terminal program, like Windows Terminal:

1. Download and install: (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.11.2921.0 download at the bottom).
2. Configure it to ssh to your host: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/ssh
3. Once you are connected to the host, generate the data you want to copy.
4. Then, maximize the window and use ctrl+mouse wheel to quickly change the font size down to something tiny.
5. When all the data you want to copy is on the screen, you can select it with mouse and then right click and it will be in your Windows buffer.
6. Once you have copied the data, you can zoom the text back to normal.

Yes. :)

But you can, and I do!

There are a number of no-nonsense tiling window managers available that will do this job exactly; I personally use xmonad.

The problem is that it becomes hard to decide where the "division of labour" between tmux and the window manager should lie. Should you use the tiling window manager to control all of your panes (to use the tmux terminology), or should you use it only to control the arrangement of non-terminals, while leaving tmux to manage panes inside a single terminal session.

I tend towards the latter, mostly because that way I can keep my tmux session running even if I kill X. And I can access it remotely, etc.

Tmux targets have this syntax

session:window.pane

So you should be able to pass the session name : your window name to the attach

Edit: here is the docs on what I am talking about. This is in the man page as well but here is the wiki https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Advanced-Use#command-targets

Okay nevermind I found it here.

>copy-pipe command stores selected text in tmux buffer same to copy-selection, plus pipes selected text to the given command pbcopy. So we get text stored in two places: the tmux copy buffer and the system clipboard.

There's a program called JavE (http://www.jave.de/) that's basically old-school MS Paint, but for ASCII. Then, I used Reditr's (http://reditr.com/) preview box to make sure that it would post correctly. Each line is "code" formatted. It looks like nonsense on phones. However, if I had left out the Dialog Menu box part, the Reddit app seems to know how to make simple tables from ASCII. JavE also supports importing of images to convert, FIGlet fonts, and has an animation editor of sorts. It uses Java, so it should run fine on most systems.

It seems Nicholas finally gave in to this pledge (at least partially)... an email was just sent to 'tmux-users' mailing list (hosted on SourceForge so far) that the mailing list will be moving to Google Groups.

Hopefully this is just a first step.

Update:

link to new tmux-users and tmux-git google groups

I think I have a solution. I added the tmux plugin to .zshrc, and removed the line I added to open in a new session.

The tmux plugin has some useful defaults, including Automatically connect to a previous session if it exits (default: true).

I then added this to my .zshrc file: ZSH_TMUX_AUTOSTART=true

So, now, when I run my test workflow, the new file opens in the same session without the duplicate session tabs.

Here are some helpful resources:

1. Having tmux load by default when a zsh terminal is launched - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
2. ohmyzsh/plugins/tmux at master · ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh

So I put your code on tmux.conf and it seems to not work at all. Then I comment your code along with some other code I didn't remember what it was for (set -g status-left ""), and now Tmux shows session names. My updated .tmux.conf. Thanks!

I'm sorry about the broken link. It set the repo public, but Gitlab is treating it as private for some reason. I posted it on hastebin. Fixed on the OP too.

I'll try your solution, thanks.

I saw this post earlier and just found this by chance https://github.com/junegunn/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.

I tried a direct copypasta and that doesn't seem to work. I might play w/ it later though. Let me know if you figure something out.

You find gems when you look through the .tmux.conf, .vimrc, and .zshrc files of the best devs for those tools.

Ctrl-b q will display a number for each pane, allowing you to select the pane by pressing the corresponding number

Ctrl-b w will display all of your active sessions, windows, and panes, allowing you to select a specific window by number, or arrows/jk and enter. Pressing left/right/h/l will expand or minimize the corresponding session.

Ctrl-b s is the same as Ctrl-b w though the sessions are pre-minimized vs Ctrl-b w the session selections are pre-expanded

Useful Cheatsheet

byobu provides an elegant solution for situations like these.

It has a concept it calls window sets which allows one to define a list of "windows" to launch when instantiating a byobu session.

For instance, using your example, you would first create a $HOME/.byobu/windows.tmux.config file that contains all the commands you wish to execute:

new-session -s config -A -n whatever 'vi file' new-window -t config:2 -n 'whatever' 'vi file' new window -t config:3 -n 'whatever' 'vi file'

Then, to invoke this window set, you'd run

BYOBU_WINDOWS=config byobu

tmux showenv -g shows the same env I have outside tmux after .zshrc has loaded.

To be more specific: I have asdf installed and oh-my-zsh's asdf plugin. That plugin adds ASDF_DIR env variable:

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/asdf/asdf.plugin.zsh

Then, the asdf script exports it:

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/blob/master/asdf.sh#L16

Then tmux loads, it'll have the ASDF_DIR env variable already exported, and then, it'll load interpret the whole .zshrc. Then, the asdf plugin will not correctly set the ASDF_COMPLETIONS variable.

There's two options here:

1. The asdf plugin should work no matter if loaded multiple times.
2. The tmux session should start without the variables exported during the non-tmux .zshrc load.

Guessing this is why I have the following in my kitty.conf

# clipboard_control write-clipboard write-primary
clipboard_control no-append

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html#opt-kitty.clipboard_control

Add this to your $HOME/.tmux.conf

bind -n MouseDown3Pane send-keys -M MouseDown3Pane

I tried with unbind first, but it didn't work. The bind should be replacing the default bind from https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/key-bindings.c#L471 and it should send the mouse event to the pane.

Hope it works

Because C-Num isn't a valid key in old school terminals and so tmux which tries to support as many terminals as possible doesn't have something that only works in a subset of them enabled by default. If your terminal emulator supports it u can configure tmux to accept these keybindings https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Modifier-Keys

You can follow the instructions to build from release tarball: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Installing#from-source-tarball There is already a release for 3.2, so you don’t need to build from version control.

You can use tree mode (C-b w) then tag windows with t and kill all the ones you have tagged with X (S-x). Look at https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Getting-Started#choosing-sessions-windows-and-panes.

If you just want to open a new window/pane to display the output of some script, I don't think send-keys is what you want.

I vaguely remember reading about piping to something like tmux new-window in the docs or the wiki that seems to do what you want.

I tried to track it down, but couldn't find it. Closest I came across was pipe-pane, which I don't think is exactly what you want, but you may find it helpful: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Advanced-Use#piping-pane-changes

Boo. Though, someone has a fork where they've managed to customise the borders: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/pull/1785

Also, maybe it's just the issues I've looked at, but I find it slightly amusing that nicm's typical reaction to a feature request is "no, sorry, not interested." And yet shortly (or perhaps not so shortly) after, he comes back to say "here's a bunch of work I've put into trying to implement your request".

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Clipboard confuses me. Is there some sane configuration I should be using because the defaults with https://github.com/kaihendry/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf do not work for me. :(

if-shell syntax

if-shell -F (condition) {execute this block if true} {execute this block if false}

M-f mapping

condition:

#{==:#{session_name},floating} (current_session_name == floating)

if true:

detach-client (you will be in floating window, so detach from that.. close popup and back to orig)

if false:

set -gF '@last_session_name' '#S' (set global variable last_session_name) popup -d '#{pane_current_path}' -xC -yC -w70% -h70% -KER 'tmux new -A -s floating' (start popup window)

! mapping

condition:

#{==:#{session_name},floating} (current_session_name == floating)

if true:

break-pane (break out the current pane into a new window)

if false:

tmux break-pane -s floating -t $(tmux show -gvq '@last_session_name'): (get the pane from session named floating "floating" and put it in the session in the var last_session_name)

@ mapping

>Same as ! mapping, just that focus does not shift to the broken pane after it moves to new window

Also checkout tmux wiki as he suggested.

same-content-but-might-help-with-formatting

Right but these tell me nothing. Where did you copy from? What are you expecting to see?

Did you copy this text from vi? I already explained that text copied from vi will contain extra newlines because tmux has no way to distinguish newlines in the original text from newlines or cursor movement used by vi.

I don't really have any more time for this endless round of partial information from you. If you can come with a sensible set of steps that will allow me to reproduce what you think is a genuine problem then please open an issue at https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues and I will investigate at that point.

In 3.1, yes. So this depends on the version you are using.

-l 70% should work with later (>=3.1) version though if my understanding of the changelog is correct.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/91e40de2da5124b1593c1c25462b8c9a36b8ebfd/CHANGES#L315-L317

After some research, this apparently is a long standing issue with reflow in tmux See, e.g.," " https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/516" (or if this is not the same issue it describes my problem). just discovered a workaround when using Windows Putty. In Putty, edit your settings by ticking on "Disable remote-controlled terminal resizing" in Terminal->Features. Resizing in Tmux then works perfectly (at least for me) YMMV

My man, are you talking about this?

And yeah even though this sub isn't as chatty as others I really do appreciate all the maintainers and contributors.

How are you configuring your colours? There are two things that could be happening:

• tmux starts login shells by default, are you sure you have this configured for login shells?

• GNU ls famously has a whitelist of TERM values and tmux may not be among them, does it work if you do ls --colors=always? What if you set LS_COLORS yourself?

• Are you using RGB colour? Are you sure tmux knows that the alacritty supports it? Do you have TERM set to alacritty outside tmux? Or see https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-use-rgb-colour.

I think tmux has a hardcoded set of keys that it allows:

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/key-string.c

I think you need to add them to that key table, and recompile your tmux with the modified code.

> What I want to achive is to create a tmux binary from the sourcecode that uses that config from a greater version.

Just build tmux yourself and use it. Here is the repo: https://github.com/tmux/tmux

> this is more likely to do with it being resized when attached

I could very well be wrong, but I don't think this is the case. I believe the issue is because of the following:

> Detached new sessions are now always 80x24.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'll do some experimentation when I get a chance and follow up.

Actually figured it out after reading through the whole release notes. Funny what you will figure out just after posting. I'll leave this up in case other people run into this issue.

They aliased bind-key s to choose-tree instead of choose-session you just need to put it back

bind-key s choose-session

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/CHANGES#L93

For me the only problem was root bindings not working in copy-mode-vi. Obviously it can be easily worked around duplicating each normal bind with -T copy-mode-vi (but is ugly and all).

It seems it has been solved https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/881 but the fix is not released yet.

I use the following and mousing works fine in El Cap.

# Allow mousing set -g mouse-utf8 on set -g mouse on

# Return pre-2.1 mousing behaviour # https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/145 bind -n WheelUpPane if-shell -F -t = "#{mouse_any_flag}" "send-keys -M" "if -Ft= '#{pane_in_mode}' 'send-keys -M' 'select-pane -t=; copy-mode -e; send-keys -M'" bind -n WheelDownPane select-pane -t= \; send-keys -M

Full .tmux.config.

I also had exact the same error when trying to statically build tmux 2.0 & 2.1. I guessed there must be some changes in the configure.ac that led to the problem. What I did was to compare the configure.ac, Makefile, etc.. and finally I figured it out. This error was due to the libutempter introduced in the development of tmux 2.0 in the commit https://github.com/tmux/tmux/commit/4273c1b80e2eb321d44154fe1e82e0f11aabcbd5. You system should have a utempter-0.x.x installed, and "configure" will find utempter available. However, there is a libutempter which is another utempter implementation sort of. And the utempter-0.x.x available in your system is not the libutempter expected by tmux 2.0 & 2.1.

First of all I had to build libutempter in /root/workspace/libutempter-1.1.6, and used the below commands to statically build:

./configure --enable-static CFLAGS="-I/tmp/local/include -I/tmp/local/include/ncurses -I/root/workspace/libutempter-1.1.6" LDFLAGS="-L/tmp/local/lib -L/tmp/local/include -L/tmp/local/include/ncurses -L/root/workspace/libutempter-1.1.6" LIBEVENT_CFLAGS="-I/tmp/local/include" LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L/tmp/local/lib -levent"

compile it from source. it's easy once you learn the dance:

if ! grep 'deb-src' /etc/apt/sources.list; then echo 'deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get update; fi sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall autotools sudo apt-get build-dep tmux mkdir ~/build && cd ~/build git clone https://github.com/tmux/tmux cd tmux ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo checkinstall tmux -V

this off the top of my head, but i'm fairly confident it should work

This might help:

https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html

Personally, I've never gotten tmux -CC to work with iTerm2. It complains about aggressive-resize being on, even though I'm pretty sure I'd turned it off.

That said, you can already use tmux to manage several sessions/windows/panes, so one need not insist on using iTerm2's tabs. For example, you can create a new window using <Prefix>-c.