Darkcloud TMUX Config

Features

• A custom theme that matches the one used in darkcloud-vimconfig.
• A bandwidth monitor showing the current upload and download speed of either eth0 or the device you've set to $NETDEV.
• Sane defaults and a set of custom key bindings that group similar ideas and make frequently used commands easier to access.
• Optional support for powerline fonts that looks oh so much better when they're used :).

Installation

1. Choose either tmux.powerline.conf if powerline fonts are available or tmux.normal.conf if they're not, and install it to /etc/tmux.conf for a system-wide install or ~/.tmux.conf for a local install.
2. Install bwrate to somewhere available in $PATH and make it executable (ie: install -Dm755 bwrate /usr/local/bin/bwrate)
3. If your network device isn't named eth0, set $NETDEV to the name of the device you'd like to use somewhere tmux will see it when it runs (ie: echo 'export $NETDEV="wlan0"' >> ~/.bashrc)

Key Bindings

• Prefix: Ctrl-Space
• m and Ctrl-m: Toggle mouse mode on and off respectively.
• \ and Ctrl-\: Toggle the status bar on and off respectively.
• c and Ctrl-c: Create a new pane and create a new pane in the current directory respectively.
• [ and ]: Split the window vertically and horizontally respectively.
• { and }: Rotate the window up and down respectively.
• = and -: Select an even layout horizontally and vertically respectively.
• + and _: Select a main layout horizontally and vertically respectively.
• < and >: Swap the current window with the first and last window respectively.
• . and ,: Move and swap the current window with the provided window number respectively.
• $ and #: Rename the current session and window with the provided name respectively.
• Space and Ctrl-Space: Move to the previously selected window and pane respectively.
• h, j, k and l: Move left, down, up and right between panes respectively like the arrow keys.
• `: Toggle synchronized input between the panes on the current window.
• Escape: Clear the terminal history, tmux history and the current window/pane.
• ? and /: Show help for available key bindings and commands respectively.
• y and Ctrl-p: Enter copy mode and paste from the copy buffer respectively.
• Ctrl-v and Ctrl-y: Pastes the X buffer in tmux, and sends the tmux buffer to X respectively.
• (copy mode) v, y and Escape: Begin selection, copy selection and cancel copy mode respectively.
• Alt-[0-9] (no prefix): Switch directly to the given window.
• W: Write scrollback buffer to file.

Italics Support

Tmux supports italics if your terminal does, but the terminfo files screen and screen-256color don't advertise this, and most programs will display reversed text when it should be italics. To fix this, run: tmux-italics-terminfo, then follow the instructions it displays by changing set-option -g default-terminal "screen-256color" to set-option -g default-terminal "screen-256color-it" in your tmux.conf. You'll want to make sure your /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/dircolors, possibly vim and any other terminal applications that check the $TERM variable have screen-it and screen-256color-it added.

Credits

• Written by Kevin MacMartin: GitHub Projects | Arch Linux AUR Packages

License

This config and the bwrate script are released under the MIT license.