Tmux installation¶
Install Tmux¶
sudo apt-get install tmux
Check version
tmux -V
If you have 1.8 or older then you should update. Here are update commands for ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:pi-rho/dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y tmux=2.0-1~ppa1~t
Now if you do tmux -V it should show tmux 2.0 which is a good version for tmux plugins.
Based on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25940944/ugrade-tmux-from-1-8-to-1-9-on-ubuntu-14-04
Install Tmux Plugin Manager¶
Requirements: tmux version 1.9 (or higher), git, bash
Clone TPM:
$ git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
Put this at the bottom of .tmux.conf:
# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
# Other examples:
# set -g @plugin 'github_username/plugin_name'
# set -g @plugin 'git@github.com/user/plugin'
# set -g @plugin 'git@bitbucket.com/user/plugin'
# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'
Reload TMUX environment so TPM is sourced:
# type this in terminal
$ tmux source ~/.tmux.conf
Based on: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm
Install Tmux Resurrect¶
Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf:
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect'
Hit prefix + I to fetch the plugin and source it. You should now be able to use the plugin.
Install tmux-continuum¶
Last saved environment is automatically restored when tmux is started.
Put the following lines in tmux.conf:
set -g @continuum-save-interval '5'
set -g @continuum-restore 'on'
Your environment will be automatically saved every 5 minutes. When you start tmux it will automatically restore