Awesome Tmux

List of helpful tmux links for various tutorials, plugins, and configuration settings.

Table of Contents

• Tutorials
• Cheat sheets
• Configuration
• Tools and session management
• Themes
• Status Bar
• Plugins
• Books
• Miscellaneous

Tutorials

• Automatically start tmux on SSH
• Tmux crash course
• Tmux primer
• Tmux and Vim together

Cheat Sheets

• tmux-cheatsheet.markdown

Configuration

• Oh My Tmux! Powerline-like theme, vim bindings, SSH aware, improved maximize pane, ...
• Example tmux config 📗 Example tmux configuration - screen + vim key-bindings, system stat, cpu load bar
• Guide to customizing tmux.conf
• practical tmux
• tmux-extra Configuration and scripts for sane Tmux default behavior
• tmux yank to system clipboard A way to get the System Clipboard to work with tmux yank on a Mac via pbcopy and linux via xclip

Tools and session management

• automux Wrappers to tmux commands, useful for tmux based automation
• disconnected A session manager written in Deno with json as the config files
• dmux Configurable tmux workspace manager written in Rust
• libtmux Python API for tmux
• powerline Statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications including tmux
• tmux-powerline A hackable statusbar for tmux consisting of dynamic & beautiful looking segments, inspired by vim-powerline, written purely in bash.
• smug A session manager for tmux written in Go
• t The smart tmux session manager
• tat Tab completion for tmux sessions
• teamocil A simple tool used to automatically create windows and panes in tmux with YAML files
• tmex A minimalist tmux layout manager
• tmux-cssh Tmux with a "ClusterSSH"-like behavior
• tmux-conf Meant for users running tmux on multiple hosts, not always running the same version. Generates tmux config files using version checks
• tmux-nav-master Easy cross-navigation between tmux and other terminal applications.
• tmux-project Search projects and open them in a new session
• tmux-suspend Suspend local session for painlessly working with nested remote session.
• tmux-up Bootstrap new tmux sessions without complex tools, DSLs, or dependencies
• tmuxake A side-pane manager for tmux
• tmuxifier Tmuxify your Tmux. Powerful session, window & pane management for Tmux.
• tmuxinator Manage complex tmux sessions easily
• tmuxomatic Intelligent tmux session management
• tmuxp 💻 tmux session manager and python library
• tmuxpair Command line script for setting up a temporary tmux session for pair programming
• twm A highly configurable workspace manager that is easy to extend with shell scripts, written in Rust
• vim-tmux-navigator Vim and tmux integration
• xpanes Awesome tmux-based terminal divider

Themes

• catppuccin Catppuccin Latte, Frappe, Macchiato, and Mocha themes for tmux.
• dracula/tmux 🧛🏻‍♂️ The official dracula theme for tmux
• minimal-tmux-status: Minimal theme with only required information in status bar and prefix indicator. (changes only status bar)
• nord tmux An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant tmux color theme.
• tmux-base16-statusline Statusline based on base16-shell
• tmux-colors-solarized A color theme for the tmux terminal multiplexer using Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized color scheme
• tmux-dark-notify - Make tmux's theme follow macOS dark/light mode.
• tmux-gruvbox Light and dark tmux theme
• tmux-nova Fully customizable tmux theme
• tmux-power 8 powerline style themes for tmux, easily to expand.
• tmux-snazzy Elegant tmux theme with bright colors
• tmux-themepack Various themes for tmux
• tmux-tokyo-night A vim inspired tokyo night theme
• tokyo-night-tmux tokyo-night theme for tmux
• tomorrow: 5 flavors of Tomorrow theme based on specifications from Tomorrow Theme (i.e. dark/blue and light).

Status Bar

• aws-tmux Tmux plugin that gives you access to some (potentially) useful information about AWS.
• gitmux Show Git status in tmux status bar
• tmux-battery Plug and play battery percentage and icon indicator for Tmux.
• tmux-clima Displays the current temperature and weather condition using the OpenWeather API.
• tmux-colortag a plugin/theme that colors the tmux window tags.
• tmux-cpu-info CPU usage gauge to status bar
• tmux-cpu Show CPU load with easy icons
• tmux-df - Show available disk space (output of df command)
• tmux-kripto Add a cryptocurrency stock price to the statusbar.
• tmux-maildir-counter Plugin that counts files on a specific mail directory
• tmux-mem-cpu-load CPU, RAM memory, and load monitor for use with tmux
• tmux-mode-indicator Displays prompt indicating currently active Tmux mode.
• tmux-mpv-info Displays the current song playing with MPV in your tmux status bar.
• tmux-mullvad - Keep track of Mullvad VPN status.
• tmux-ludanta - What's playing on an MPD local server.
• tmux-nerd-font-window-name Nerd Font icons for your tmux windows
• tmux-network-bandwidth Show network bandwidth
• tmux-nordvpn Monitor the current NordVPN connection status.
• tmux-online-status Tmux plugin that displays online status of your computer
• tmux-packet-loss - Displays packet loss % if at or above the specified threshold level
• tmux-piavpn Keep track of your Private Internet Access VPN status.
• tmux-plugin-playerctl Display MPRIS metadata in Tmux (Spotify, Clementine, VLC, etc)
• tmux-pomodoro-plus Incorporate the Pomodoro technique into your tmux workflow
• tmux-prefix-highlight Plugin that highlights when you press tmux prefix key
• tmux-split-statusbar Plugin for splitting status bar into 2 parts - window + left/right status
• tmux-spotify-info Spotify track info on your status bar (OSX)
• tmux-spotify-info Spotify track info on your status bar (Linux)
• tmux-transient-status Automatically make your tmux status bar vanish when unneded.
• tmux-weather Add weather status via forcast.io
• tmux-weather Show current weather using wttr.in
• tmux-window-name Names your tmux windows smartly.
• tmux-weather-info-yr Displays the current temperature and weather based on your location via yr.no
• tmux-world-clock Show multiple timezones using Olson tz database.

Plugins

• tmux2html 🐈 Render full tmux windows or individual panes as HTML
• tmux-better-mouse-mode A tmux plugin to better manage and configure the mouse.
• extrakto tmux clipboard copy and output completions
• muxile - View and control your tmux session from your mobile.
• tmux-autoreload - Watches your tmux configuration file and automatically reloads it on change.
• tmux-bitwarden Access your Bitwarden login items in a tmux pane.
• tmux-browser Web browser sessions attached to tmux sessions.
• tmux-cht-sh Access cheatsheets easily in a popup
• tmux-copytk - Multi utility rapid copy toolkit.
• tmux-easy-motion vim-easymotion like navigation for tmux.
• tmux-fingers copy pasting in terminal with vimium/vimperator like hints.
• tmux-fuzzback Search your scrollback buffer using fzf.
• tmux-fzf-url For opening urls from browser quickly without mouse.
• tmux-fzf-session-switch Easy way to switch, when you have a ton of sessions.
• tmux-keylocker Lock away your tmux keybinds temporarely.
• tmux-menus - Popup menus to help with managing your environment.
• tmux-modal - Execute complex tmux commands in just a few keystrokes with a modal mode that is designed to be efficient, easy to remember and comfortable.
• tmux-mouse-swipe - Switch Window or Session by clicking right mouse button and swiping.
• tmux-notify A plugin to notify you when processes are finished.
• tmux-open-nvim - A plugin to help open files in a running instance of Neovim. Pairs well with tmux-fingers or tmux-open.
• tmux-thumbs A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers written in Rust, copy/pasting tmux like vimium/vimperator
• tmux-1password Access your 1Password login items in a tmux pane.
• tmux-jump Vimium/Easymotion like navigation for tmux.
• tmux-power-zoom Zoom pane to separate window, then unzoom it back into it's original location.
• tmux-session-wizard One prefix to control all your session creation, naming, switching, etc using fzf & zoxide.
• tmux-simple-git-status Show branch and number of changes in current git repository
• tmux-spotify Show a nice menu to manage Spotify application
• tmux-super-fingers like fingers, but also opens files in vim.
• tmux-tilish Turn tmux into a dynamic window manager with intuitive keybindings (inspired by i3wm/sway)
• tmux-wormhole Use tmux to download files with magic wormhole
• tmux-pianobar A menu and status bar widget for Pianobar
• tmux-plugins Official tmux plugins
  • tmux-continuum Continuous saving of tmux environment. Automatic restore when tmux is started. Automatic tmux start when computer is turned on.
  • tmux-copycat A plugin that enhances tmux search
  • tmux-fpp Quickly open any path on your terminal window in your $EDITOR of choice!
  • tmux-logging Easy logging and screen capturing for Tmux.
  • tmux-open Tmux key bindings for quick opening of a highlighted file or url
  • tmux-pain-control standard pane key-bindings for tmux
  • tmux-resurrect Persists tmux environment across system restarts.
  • tmux-sessionist Lightweight tmux utils for manipulating sessions
  • tmux-sidebar A sidebar with the directory tree for the current path. Tries to make tmux more IDE like.
  • tmux-tpm Tmux Plugin Manager
  • tmux-urlview Quickly open any url on your terminal window! (No commits since 2016, see tmux-urlscan or tmux-fzf-url for a maintained alternative.)
  • tmux-yank Tmux plugin for copying to system clipboard. Works on OSX, Linux and Cygwin.

Development and testing

• tmux-example-plugin Example Tmux plugin that actually demonstrates how to build plugins for Tmux
• tmux-test A small framework for isolated testing of tmux plugins.

Books

• tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development
• The Tao of tmux

Miscellaneous

• sixel-tmux a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics
• Statically linked tmux Install new version without root access
• sublime-tmux Sublime Text plugin to interact with tmux sessions
• vim-tmux vim plugin for tmux.conf
• tmux-tail-f A tool to tail multiple files using tmux