Install and configure tmux on Mac OS X

Install_tmux

# First install tmux
brew install tmux

# For mouse support (for switching panes and windows)
# Only needed if you are using Terminal.app (iTerm has mouse support)
Install http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Then install https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/

# More on mouse support http://floriancrouzat.net/2010/07/run-tmux-with-mouse-support-in-mac-os-x-terminal-app/

# Enable mouse support in ~/.tmux.conf
set-option -g mouse-select-pane on
set-option -g mouse-select-window on
set-window-option -g mode-mouse on

# Install Teamocil to pre define workspaces
https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil

# See http://files.floriancrouzat.net/dotfiles/.tmux.conf for configuration examples

Thank you, this is so useful!

The gist that keeps on giving...

Thanks for the great mouse support 😃

Thanks!

Thank you

Infinite thanks..

Thanks :)

I got this error when I start tmux after adding those lines to .tmux.conf

.tmux.conf:1: unknown option: mode-mouse
.tmux.conf:2: unknown option: mouse-select-pane
.tmux.conf:3: unknown option: mouse-select-window

If you're getting the errors like alexserver mentioned above.

.tmux.conf:1: unknown option: mode-mouse
.tmux.conf:2: unknown option: mouse-select-pane
.tmux.conf:3: unknown option: mouse-select-window

Check your version tmux -V. If it's >=2.1, syntax was simplified to:

# Mouse mode for tmux > 2.1 (Oct 2015)
set -g mouse on

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30185210/ubuntu-change-tmux-1-8-to-tmux-next-1-9 for details.

This doesn't work in the newest tmux 2.1, check out tmux/tmux#145
after set -g mouse on do this:
bind -n WheelUpPane if-shell -F -t = "#{mouse_any_flag}" "send-keys -M" "if -Ft= '#{pane_in_mode}' 'send-keys -M' 'copy-mode -e; send-keys -M'"
tmux/tmux#145

@flov amazingly that incantation worked. thanks!

Nice, thanks

set -g mouse on

Works fine, but there is no way to copy text using mouse then. Do you guys have any solution on that?

@wilgoszpl Hold down Option key while selecting the text.

Is there a binary version of tmux? I don't like to install a lot of dependencies...

I released The Tao of tmux, a book on tmux on leanpub on amazon a few weeks ago. You can read the full book online for free at https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read.

Thank you ✌️

thank you !

nice and easy, very useful for training process of our team :))

Great work , love it

great thanks!
for the mouse support:
set -g mouse on

Thanks

@agfor It is not necessary. But I find it helps alot! It let's you define project setups, with panes and windows, in a YAML-file. And then just run a command to setup any number of windows and panes running a command. I do all my dev in the terminal, so for each project I have a YAML file that launches vim in one pane, starts SASS-compilation in another, etc etc. So I do not have to manually setup panes everytime I'm developing on a specific project.

Is there a small demo that you can show on how you use Teamocil?

@agfor It is not necessary. But I find it helps alot! It let's you define project setups, with panes and windows, in a YAML-file. And then just run a command to setup any number of windows and panes running a command. I do all my dev in the terminal, so for each project I have a YAML file that launches vim in one pane, starts SASS-compilation in another, etc etc. So I do not have to manually setup panes everytime I'm developing on a specific project.

Is there a small demo that you can show on how you use Teamocil?

I guess, I have the details regarding Teamocil from - www.teamocil.com. Will test it out and will revert if any hiccups. Cheers!!

thank u

Doesn't work any more. Using set -g mouse on instead.