alghanmi / dot.tmux

tmux configuration files

##tmux Configuration tmux is a terminal multiplexer. This repository contains my personal configuration of tmux.

###$TERM Setup For consistant results. The terminal ID from your terminal application along with $TERM environment variable and terminal settings in .tmux.conf should match to properly support 256 colors.

1. The terminal application such as gnome-terminal or iTerm2 should identify itself as screen-256color

2. In your .bashrc (or .bash_profile if you are on Mac):

#Set terminal to screen-256color in TMUX
if [ -n "$TMUX" ]; then
	export TERM=screen-256color
fi

#Force TMUX to start in 256 support-mode
alias tmux='tmux -2'

1. .tmux.conf should properly set the terminal to

set -g default-terminal 'screen-256color'

1. If you are using vim within tmux, you should also set the terminal colors:

set t_Co=256                        " force vim to use 256 colors
let g:solarized_termcolors=256      " use solarized 256 fallback

##Mac Installation Notes In order for this work properly on mac, you would need to install reattach-to-user-namespace

brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

Also, tmux only runs .bashrc and not .bash_profile when starting. Therefore, I advise to have all your setup in ~/.bashrc and have the following code as your ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
	. ~/.bashrc
fi

####Notes

• Forcing TERM is bad

###Plugins This tmux configuration takes advantage of the very useful [tmux plugins]. I strongly encourage you to visit this project and pick the plugins that suite you the most and install them.

###Powerline This setup also takes advantage of Powerline which you can install to privde you with nice details and information in your terminal.

###Installation and Setup In your terminal, clone and setup tmux configuration

git clone [e-mail]:alghanmi/dot.tmux.git ~/.tmux
ln -s ~/.tmux/tmux.conf  ~/.tmux.conf

Next, launch tmux

tmux

Finally, install all the plugins, but running the following key combinations: <Ctrl>-A + I