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Installation

Download:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/tony/tmux-config.git ~/.tmux

Copy tmux config to home:

ln -s ~/.tmux/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf

Go to config dir:

cd ~/.tmux

Stats

tmux-mem-cpu-load

Works on Linux and OS X.

Prep ourself to download submodule (if you forgot --recursive when cloning):

git submodule init

Download submodule:

git submodule update

Change dir to tmux-mem-cpu-load:

cd ~/.tmux/vendor/tmux-mem-cpu-load

Make _build directory and cd into it:

mkdir _build; cd _build

General make file:

cmake ..

Compile binary:

make

Install our binary to /usr/local/bin/tmux-mem-cpu-load:

sudo make install

(No need to do sudo if on OS X / macOS)

Go home:

cd ~

Launch tmux:

tmux

And press Control + a then d to go back to the terminal.

Update config:

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

basic-cpu-and-memory.tmux

(Cross platform, tested with python 2.7+)

Update March 19, 2014. Works with psutil 2.0 now.

Install psutil:

sudo pip install psutil

Copy ~/.tmux/vendor/basic-cpu-and-memory.tmux to bin:

sudo cp ~/.tmux/vendor/basic-cpu-and-memory.tmux /usr/local/bin/tmux-mem-cpu-load

make executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tmux-mem-cpu-load

Powerline (Advanced)

You can add suport for powerline by adding these to your ~/.tmux.conf. Be sure to grab and install powerline-fonts for your system.

See Powerline on ReadTheDocs.org for more info.

# pip install --user git+git://github.com/powerline/powerline
if-shell 'test -f ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf' 'source-file ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'

# [sudo] pip install git+git://github.com/powerline/powerline
if-shell 'test -f /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf' 'source-file /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'

# [sudo] pip install git+git://github.com/powerline/powerline
if-shell 'test -f /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf' 'source-file /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'
# python 3.3 ?
if-shell 'test -f /usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf' 'source-file /usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'
# python 3.4 ?
# if-shell 'test -f /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf' 'source-file /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'
# python 3.5 ?
# if-shell 'test -f /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf' 'source-file /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'
# python 3.6 ?
# if-shell 'test -f /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf' 'source-file /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'

Start tmux

To start a session:

tmux

To reattach a previous session:

tmux attach

To reload config file

<Control + b>: (which could Ctrl-B or Ctrl-A if you overidden it) then source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Commands

Our prefix/leader key is Control + a now (just like the screen multiplexer). This sequence must be typed before any tmux shortcut.

Beyond your first window:

Custom:

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