Screen multiplexers have been around for a long time , but for me i never been a big fan of screen , for a long time I’ve used dedicated terminals , until tmux came up . I have spent ridiculous amounts of time looking to work with the minimum effort possible and without reaching for the mouse , so this list is what i think it’s essential for my productivity: Set your prefix: The is a key combination you will need to press to enter into “tmux mode” , something like a meta key in vim for example i use prefix Ctrl + x set-option -g prefix C-x I’ve seen some people using caps lock for prefix seems like a neat idea. Status Bars: As i used terminals i display some things that might overlap with your favorite window manager ( here) but I still find it useful fullscreen XFCE You can add this to your . to achieve something similar tmuxrc set -g status-left '#[fg=brightblue,bg=grey]❐#[fg=white] #S | #h |'75 set -gstatus-right "#[fg=colour202]#(lastad.sh) #[fg=218,noblink,bg=colur235]#[fg=red]#(~/tmux/online.sh) You get the idea you can pass shell commands inside #() anything you want. Splitting and creating panes: Splitting panes is very useful specially if you have a large screen , makes a better use of the real state that comes with them , so i normally use ctrl x " --> to split horizontallyctrl x % --> to split vertically Resizing panes: Resizing panes have to be something fast and simple , otherwise you will get annoyed very quickly , I use the following bind-key -n C-S-Up resize-pane -U 2bind-key -n C-S-Down resize-pane -D 2bind-key -n C-S-Left resize-pane -L 15bind-key -n C-S-Right resize-pane -R 15 That is Ctrl +Shift + arrows will adjust the current pane that many units Up, Left , Down or Right … it’s super handy. Tmux Copycat. I don’t know how i lived for so long without this: _tmux-copycat - A plugin that enhances tmux search_github.com tmux-plugins/tmux-copycat Basically it let’s you search on your buffer for example , you want to search for the word “foo” in all your buffer history Ctrl +x / "foo" It works sort of like VIM , if you press “n” you will go to an older match and so forth. Tmux Zoom Sometimes you want to make a pane full screen , i normally go about as Ctrl + x + z That will zoom in the current pane and it will make it full screen , do the same to go back. Move between panes in a single Window: Just as resizing , moving between panes has to be quick , I like this shortcut: bind -n S-Left select-pane -Lbind -n S-Right select-pane -Rbind -n S-Up select-pane -Ubind -n S-Down select-pane -D Which is basically , Shit + arrow move to the pane where the arrow points to :) That’s all for now , Thanks for reading!!
