I made a script to run mutiple peers of a chord-ring in a tmux session.
tmux new -s peers -d
# Do this multiple times
tmux send-keys <ProgramName> C-m
tmux select-pane -t :.+
tmux split-window -v -t peers
tmux select-layout tiled
tmux attach -t peers
I would like the panes to be ordered like this:
_ _ _
|0|1|2|
_ _ _
|3|4|5|
_ _ _
|6|7|8|
The numbers represent the order in which the panes where created.
Is it possible to sort the panes in this order automatically?
When you do select-pane before split, you effectively re-order.
If you keep splitting the newest pane, you won't have this problem. You just need to make sure it's big enough.
tmux new -s peers -d
(( i=0, n=8, h=2*n ))
while
tmux send-keys "echo ${i}" C-m
(( i++ < n ))
do
tmux split-window -v -t peers -l${h}
done
tmux select-layout tiled
tmux attach -t peers
It appears the above code is buggy.
This more thorough version (implemented as bash function but could just be a script) seems to work more reliably:
tmux-new-nxn-session(){
wname=$1
n=$2
tmux new -s "$wname" -d
(( i=1, nxn=(n*n), h=2*nxn ))
tmux resize-window -t "$wname" -y $h
while
tmux send-keys "echo ${i}" C-m
(( i++ < nxn ))
do
tmux split-window -v -t "$wname" -l${h}
done
tmux select-layout -t "$wname" tiled
tmux set-option -t "$wname" window-size latest
tmux attach -t "$wname"
}
For example, for 6x6, call as: tmux-new-nxn-session "peers" 6
resize-window sets window size explicitly to ensure it is big enough
set-option removes the "manual" window-size status so that it will resize to fit the viewing terminal
there is no error-checking to ensure wname doesn't already exist
My goal is to replicate the middle-mouse copy-paste functionality in linux.
I can display the output of this clipboard in a pane via:
bind-key -T root MouseDown2Pane run-shell "xclip -selection primary -o"
I'd like to directly insert this output into the pane (i.e. similar to send-keys) but I don't see a way to link the 2 commands together.
I'm running tmux version 2.1.
Another way to do this that doesn't require a temporary file is:
bind-key -T root MouseDown2Pane run-shell 'tmux set-buffer -b x-clip "$(xsel -op)"' \; paste-buffer -b x-clip -d
Break down:
bind-key -T root MouseDown2Pane: Bind to a middle mouse click on a pane in the root key table (which applies when you aren't in copy mode and haven't pressed the prefix)
run-shell 'tmux set-buffer -b x-clip "$(xsel -op)"': This is a little hacky, but it runs the set-buffer tmux command in a shell with another tmux command. This is so we can expand the output of the xsel command to get the clipboard contents
paste-buffer -b x-clip -d: Pastes the contents of the buffer, and deletes it.
Another way to do it:
bind-key -T root MouseDown2Pane run-shell 'xclip -o | tmux load-buffer -bxclip -' \; paste-buffer -bxclip -d
This can be achieved by redirecting the output of the shell command into a (temporary file), then inserting the contents of that file directly into the pane using the tmux load-buffer and paste-buffer commands:
bind-key -T root MouseDown2Pane run-shell "xclip -selection primary -o >~/.tmux-buffer-tmp" \; load-buffer -b tmp-copy-buffer ~/.tmux-buffer-tmp \; paste-buffer -b tmp-copy-buffer -d \; run-shell -b "rm ~/.tmux-buffer-tmp"
Explaining each step:
run-shell "xclip -selection primary -o >~/.tmux-buffer-tmp" uses the xclip utility to insert the contents of the clipboard into a temporary file
load-buffer -b tmp-copy-buffer ~/.tmux-buffer-tmp loads the contents of the above file into a tmux buffer
paste-buffer -b tmp-copy-buffer -d pastes those contents direty into the active pane (and deletes the temporary buffer so that the state of the buffers is unchanged by the mouse click)
run-shell -b "rm ~/.tmux-buffer-tmp" removes the temporary file.
How do I set up tmux so that it starts up with the specified windows opened?
You can write a small shell script that launches tmux with the required programs. I have the following in a shell script that I call dev-tmux. A dev environment:
#!/bin/sh
tmux new-session -d 'vim'
tmux split-window -v 'ipython'
tmux split-window -h
tmux new-window 'mutt'
tmux -2 attach-session -d
So everytime I want to launch my favorite dev environment I can just do
$ dev-tmux
I was trying to create a complex grid of panes and had to deal with switching and splitting panes over and over again. Here are my learnings:
tmux new-session \;
Gets you started with a new session. To split it horizontal or vertical use split-window -h or -v subsequently, like that:
tmux new-session \; split-window -v \; split-window -h \;
Creates 3 panes, like this:
------------
| |
|----------|
| | |
------------
To run commands in that panes, just add them with the send-keys 'my-command' command and C-m which executes it:
tmux new-session \; \
send-keys 'tail -f /var/log/monitor.log' C-m \; \
split-window -v \; \
split-window -h \; \
send-keys 'top' C-m \;
And the resulting session should look like that.
------------
| tail |
|----------|
| | top |
------------
Now I tried to again sub-divide the bottom left pane, so switching either back using last-pane, or in more complex windows, with the select-pane -t 1 where 1 is the number of the pane in order created starting with 0.
tmux new-session \; \
send-keys 'tail -f /var/log/monitor.log' C-m \; \
split-window -v \; \
split-window -h \; \
send-keys 'top' C-m \; \
select-pane -t 1 \; \
split-window -v \; \
send-keys 'weechat' C-m \;
Does that. Basicaly knowing your way around with split-window and select-pane is all you need. It's also handy to pass with -p 75 a percentage size of the pane created by split-window to have more control over the size of the panes.
tmux new-session \; \
send-keys 'tail -f /var/log/monitor.log' C-m \; \
split-window -v -p 75 \; \
split-window -h -p 30 \; \
send-keys 'top' C-m \; \
select-pane -t 1 \; \
split-window -v \; \
send-keys 'weechat' C-m \;
Which results in a session looking like that
------------------
| tail |
|----------------|
| | top |
|----------| |
| weechat | |
------------------
You can source different sessions from your .tmux.conf like so:
# initialize sessions
bind S source-file ~/.tmux/session1
bind s source-file ~/.tmux/session2
And then format the sessions as you require:
#session1
new -s SessionName -n WindowName Command
neww -n foo/bar foo
splitw -v -p 50 -t 0 bar
selectw -t 1
selectp -t 0
This would open 2 windows, the second of which would be named foo/bar and would be split vertically in half (50%) with foo running above bar. Focus would be in window 2 (foo/bar), top pane (foo).
You can then start your preferred tmux session (in this case, session1) with PrefixShifts
Use tmuxinator - it allows you to have multiple sessions configured, and you can choose which one to launch at any given time. You can launch commands in particular windows or panes and give titles to windows. Here is an example use with developing Django applications.
Sample config file:
# ~/.tmuxinator/project_name.yml
# you can make as many tabs as you wish...
project_name: Tmuxinator
project_root: ~/code/rails_project
socket_name: foo # Not needed. Remove to use default socket
rvm: 1.9.2#rails_project
pre: sudo /etc/rc.d/mysqld start
tabs:
- editor:
layout: main-vertical
panes:
- vim
- #empty, will just run plain bash
- top
- shell: git pull
- database: rails db
- server: rails s
- logs: tail -f logs/development.log
- console: rails c
- capistrano:
- server: ssh me#myhost
See the README at the above link for a full explanation.
:~$ tmux new-session "tmux source-file ~/session1"
session1
neww
split-window -v 'ipython'
split-window -h
new-window 'mutt'
create an alias in .bashrc
:~$ echo `alias tmux_s1='tmux new-session "tmux source-file ~/session1"'` >>~/.bashrc
:~$ . ~/.bashrc
:~$ tmux_s1
have a look # https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil
you can specify your structure using YAML
windows:
- name: sample-window
splits:
- cmd: vim
- cmd:
- ipython
width: 50
- cmd:
height: 25
This script starts a session with the name "e" and three windows
#!/bin/sh
tmux new-session -s e -n etc -d 'cd /etc; bash -i'
tmux new-window -t e:1 -n home 'cd ~; bash -i'
tmux new-window -t e:2 -n log 'cd /var/log; bash -i'
tmux select-window -t e:1
tmux -2 attach-session -t e
From my "get.all" script, which I invoke each morning to run a bunch of subsequent "get.XXX" jobs to refresh the software that I track. Some of them are auto-quitting. Others require more interaction once the get has finished (like asking to build emacs).
#!/bin/sh
tmux att -t get ||
tmux \
new -s get -n capp \; \
send-keys 'get.capp' C-m \; \
neww -n emacs \; \
send-keys 'get.emacs' C-m \; \
neww -n git \; \
send-keys 'get.git' C-m \; \
neww -n mini \; \
send-keys 'get.mini' C-m \; \
neww -n port \; \
send-keys 'get.port' C-m \; \
neww -n rakudo \; \
send-keys 'get.rakudo' C-m \; \
neww -n neil \; \
send-keys 'get.neil && get.neil2 && exit' C-m \; \
neww -n red \; \
send-keys 'get.red && exit' C-m \; \
neww -n cpan \; \
send-keys 'get.cpan && exit' C-m \; \
selectw -t emacs
If you just want to split screen on 2 panes (say horizontally), you can run this command (no tmux or shell scripts required):
tmux new-session \; split-window -h \;
You screen will look like this:
[ks#localhost ~]$ │[ks#localhost ~]$
│
│
│
│
│
│
│
│
│
│
│
[10] 0:ks#localhost:~* "localhost.localdomain" 19:51 31-янв-16
First i had the approach from #jasonwryan but if you have more then 2 configs, it can get confusing.
So i created an alias function:
tmx () {
tmux "$2" source-file "$HOME/.tmux/$1.conf";
}
In ~/.tmux/ i have multiple sessions for many uses. For example i work for different companies that have each another dev environment. So with the alias function above i can simply call: tmx company1 and load the config i need.
Update: The purpose of "$2" after the tmux command is, that you are able to pass additional tmux args.
And this is how I do it:
#!/bin/bash
function has-session {
tmux has-session -t name_of_my_session 2>/dev/null
}
if has-session ; then
echo "Session already exists"
else
cd /path/to/my/project
tmux new-session -d -s name_of_my_session 'vim'
tmux split-window -h -p 40 start_web_server
tmux split-window -v
tmux attach-session -d -t name_of_my_session
fi
I have one file for each of my project. Also you can group them to have some for work some for hobby projects.
Also you can move it to ~/bin folder, add it to PATH and give tmux_my_awesome_project name. Then you will be able to run it from each place.
You can use tmux hooks to execute commands when a new session is created. Specifically, this is achieved using the session-created hook.
For example, to split the screen three ways with top running in the lower right you can add the following line to your ~/.tmux.conf file:
set-hook -g session-created 'split -h ; split -v top'
The advantage of this method is that you don't have to run tmux in any special way (i.e., shell script or alias) to get the desired result. You can also combine this with tmux new-session -A -s mysession described in this other answer such that the hook commands are only run when you first create the session and not on subsequent attachments.
This feature was added by d15d54c2c back in 2016. The first release to include it is is 2.4.
Try bro, it is a project bootstrapper.
It provides easy apis to interact with tmux.
It looks something like this :
#!/bin/sh
# # project_name/tasks/init.sh
structure project_name
window editor
run 'vim'
window terminal
run 'echo happy coding ...'
focus editor
connect project_name
To launch a project all one needs to do is run following command -
bro start <project_name>
Checkout the screencast below, it shows how to get started with bro and use its tmux api.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8296449/50532502-2cf3e400-0b6e-11e9-84af-c5f77a04e5cc.gif
There is a tmux plugin for this.
Check out tmux-resurrect
Restore tmux environment after system restart.
Tmux is great, except when you have to restart the computer. You lose all the running programs, working directories, pane layouts etc. There are helpful management tools out there, but they require initial configuration and continuous updates as your workflow evolves or you start new projects.
tmux-resurrect saves all the little details from your tmux environment so it can be completely restored after a system restart (or when you feel like it). No configuration is required. You should feel like you never quit tmux.
Or tmux-continuum
Features:
continuous saving of tmux environment
automatic tmux start when computer/server is turned on
automatic restore when tmux is started
This works for me. Creating 5 windows with the given names and auto selecting to the home window.
new -n home
neww -n emacs
neww -n puppet
neww -n haskell
neww -n ruby
selectw -t 1
smux.py allows you to simply list the commands you want in each pane, prefixed with a line containing three dashes.
Here's an example smux file that starts three panes.
---
echo "This is pane 1."
---
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/hq6/smux
cd smux
less smux.py
---
man tmux
If you put this in a file called Sample.smux, you can then run the following to launch.
pip3 install smux.py
smux.py Sample.smux
Full disclaimer: I am the author of smux.py.
tmuxp support JSON or YAML session configuration and a python API. A simple tmuxp configuration file to create a new session in YAML syntax is:
session_name: 2-pane-vertical
windows:
- window_name: my test window
panes:
- pwd
- pwd
The plugin tmux-continuum will auto save your tmux session and load it the next time tmux starts, should be easier to setup than some of the custom script solutions here.
Features:
continuous saving of tmux environment
automatic tmux start when computer/server is turned on
automatic restore when tmux is started
To save your session on demand you can use the tmux-resurrect plugin. tmux-resurrect is also required to run tmux-continuum
tmux-resurrect saves all the little details from your tmux environment
so it can be completely restored after a system restart (or when you
feel like it). No configuration is required. You should feel like you
never quit tmux.
To simply open tmux with multiple panes and run some commands, I created the following bash file:
#!/bin/bash
tmux split-window -v -p 30 -c ~/path/to/folder1
tmux split-window -h -p 66 -c ~/path/to/folder2
tmux split-window -h -p 50 'mongod'
Run the bash file to get the following:
-----------------------------------
| |
|---------------------------------|
| folder1 | folder2 | mongod |
-----------------------------------
I've create this script. It does not need tmuxinator, ruby or others. It is just a bash script, configurable:
A file named config should contains something like this:
combo=()
combo+=('logs' 'cd /var/log; clear; pwd')
combo+=('home' 'cd ~; clear; pwd')
and the bash code should be:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -r config ]; then
echo ""
echo "Loading custom file"
. config
else
. config.dist
fi
tmux start-server
window=0
windownumber=-1
for i in "${combo[#]}"; do
if [ $((window%2)) == 0 ]; then
name=${i}
((windownumber++))
else
command=${i}
fi
if [ ${combo[0]} == "${i}" ]; then
tmux new-session -d -s StarTmux -n "${name}"
else
if [ $((window%2)) == 0 ]; then
tmux new-window -tStarTmux:$windownumber -n "${name}"
fi
fi
if [ $((window%2)) == 1 ]; then
tmux send-keys -tStarTmux:$windownumber "${command}" C-m
fi
((window++))
done
tmux select-window -tStarTmux:0
tmux attach-session -d -tStarTmux
I just tried using all the ideas on this page and I didn't like any of them. I just wanted a solution that started tmux with a specific set of windows when my terminal opened. I also wanted it to be idempotent, i.e. opening a new terminal window takes over the tmux session from the previous one.
The above solutions often tend to open multiple tmux sessions and I want just one. First, I added this to my ~/.bash_profile:
tmux start-server
if [[ -z "$TMUX" ]]
then
exec tmux attach -d -t default
fi
then I added the following to my ~/.tmux.conf:
new -s default -n emacs /usr/local/bin/emacs
neww -n shell /usr/local/bin/bash
neww -n shell /usr/local/bin/bash
selectw -t 1
now every time I start a terminal or start tmux or whatever, I either reattach to my existing desired setup (the session named default), or create a new session with that setup.
I know my solution is quite similar to others, but I couldn't find any that had exactly what I was looking for :
I want to open titled windows at specific paths
I want to have as many windows and panes as I want
I want to run arbitrary commands in each of the panes, persisted in history
I want to focus the window I want at the end of the script
I want being able to spawn this very quickly
I want it to be easy to maintain
For my project named johndoe, I create a johndoe.conf file which is essentially a bash script, somewhere in my configs (~/.config/tmux/tmux-sessions/johndoe.conf).
This file is simple to maintain because it does not have a myriad of \ everywhere like I saw in other answers:
# Create a new session named johndoe, with a first window named Main
# at the specified starting path.
# The -d is for detached mode, which allows me to continue defining the rest of the session
# before attaching to it. Without -d, tmux would open the client right away and
# ignore the rest of the session definition
tmux new -d -s johndoe -n 'Main' -c ~/dev/own/johndoe
# Simulate the user entering some docker command in the first window available
# in the target session named (-t) johndoe
tmux send -t johndoe 'docker compose up -d' Enter
# Create a new window in the target session, with the title 'UI run'
tmux neww -t pers -n 'UI run' -c ~/dev/own/johndoe/front-end
# Simulate user entering a command to the first pane
tmux send -t pers:'UI run.0' 'git status --short' Enter
# Split this window horizontally
tmux split-window -t pers:'UI run' -h -c ~/dev/own/johndoe/front-end
# Simulate user entering a command to the second pane in this window
tmux send -t pers:'UI run.1' 'npm run dev' Enter
tmux neww -t johndoe -n 'API run' -c ~/dev/own/johndoe/back-end/Api
tmux send -t johndoe:'API run' 'dotnet run --no-build' Enter
# Focus the first window
tmux select-window -t johndoe:'Main'
# Attach the current terminal to the only session available
# (you might want to add "-t johndoe" here if you need several sessions running in parallel)
tmux a -d
I create a bash/zsh alias to source this session configuration :
alias tmuxjohndoe='. ~/.config/tmux/tmux-sessions/johndoe.conf'
I spend just the right amount of debugging time figuring out that I need to give execution permissions to the johndoe.conf file :-)
Now from anywhere, I just run tmuxjohndoe !
You should specify it in your tmux config file (~/.tmux.conf), for example:
new mocp
neww mutt
new -d
neww
neww
(opens one session with 2 windows with mocp launched in first and mutt in second, and another detached session with 3 empty windows).
In tmux command mode, the following creates new window and opens vim inside:
:new-window vim
When you quit vim, the window is also closed. Is there a way to make it stay?
tmux has an option for this: remain-on-exit:
tmux set remain-on-exit on
I realise this is a long dead question. But I'm a recent user of tmux and I had this same question. It turns out that you might want to do this:
tmux new-session bash -l
That gets you a bash window (login shell). Then, run whatever commands you want. When they're done, they return to a command prompt, like you expect. I think a lot of people are looking for an interactive 'screen'-like behaviour. This is an easy way to do that.
I use send-keys so that it "types" the command into the shell. Here's my get.all script, which fires up many commands, some of which I may need to interact with after they're done (and the ones I don't, have exit):
#!/bin/sh
tmux att -t get ||
tmux \
new -s get -n emacs \; \
send-keys 'get.emacs' C-m \; \
neww -n git \; \
send-keys 'get.git' C-m \; \
neww -n mini \; \
send-keys 'get.mini' C-m \; \
neww -n port \; \
send-keys 'get.port' C-m \; \
neww -n rakudo \; \
send-keys 'get.rakudo' C-m \; \
neww -n neil \; \
send-keys 'get.neil && get.neil2 && exit' C-m \; \
neww -n red \; \
send-keys 'get.red && exit' C-m \; \
neww -n cpan \; \
send-keys 'get.cpan && exit' C-m \; \
selectw -t emacs
Moving good comment of #Jo So to a separate answer.
This command drops to shell once the first ls -la finishes:
tmux new-window "/bin/sh -c 'ls -la; exec bash'"
If you intend to quit the process in the new window normally (as in, proper exit), then tmux new-window "vim ; exec bash" would mostly be fine.
However, if you would intend to quit the new process via system interrupt (SIGINT for example). You will have to use trap.
tmux new-window "bash -c 'trap \"bash\" INT; tail -f foo'"