What It Is

A single tmux.conf that makes tmux usable without memorizing its default keybindings. Aimed at people who drop into tmux occasionally on remote machines and don't want to maintain a full dotfiles setup.

What It Changes

  • Mouse support is enabled out of the box.
  • The prefix indicator (>) in the status bar shows when a prefix key is active.
  • Pane splitting is remapped to | and = instead of % and ".
  • Pane and window navigation works with Shift + arrows and Alt + arrows without requiring the prefix.
  • Layouts (tiled, even horizontal, even vertical) are one keypress away.
  • Config reload is bound to o.

Setup

Drop-in via symlink so it stays version-controlled without interfering with anything else:

git clone [email protected]:jkschluesener/quicktmux ~/.config/quicktmux
ln -s ~/.config/quicktmux/tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf