Oh my tmux!
A self-contained tmux configuration with a feature-rich status line and sensible defaults.
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About Oh my tmux!
Oh my tmux! is a ready-made configuration for the tmux terminal multiplexer. It is installed with a script and ships as two files: a main .tmux.conf that you leave alone and a .tmux.conf.local where you put your own changes, so updates do not overwrite your customisation.
It requires tmux 2.6 or later along with awk and perl, and runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Windows is possible through WSL or Cygwin but is not recommended by the author.
Strengths
- Informative, configurable status line out of the box
- Separate local file keeps your changes apart from upstream updates
- Very widely used, with a large community
Limitations
- It is a configuration, so tmux itself must be installed
- Needs awk and perl
- Windows support only via WSL or Cygwin, and not recommended
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree, dual-licensed under MIT and WTFPLv2.
- License
- MIT OR WTFPL
- Developer
- Gregory Pakosz
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- tmux users who want a polished setup without writing their own config
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Byobu is a configuration layer over tmux or GNU Screen with a ready status bar and function-key bindings, and it does not need awk or perl.
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