Hidden Tmux POWER: The Missing 50% 

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Thanks for the shoutout! It’s always cool to see how people make tmux work for them.

quality content no joke , just needed to watch two vids and I was sold

At this point all this feels like is over engineering something that is straightforward as it is. I have used tmuxifier for a lot of time for projects which you are actually working on and it takes less than a minute to create a session file. Also i don't understand how people find w not enough for their usage it is as straightforward as it is and provides all the necessary previews as well. Could just be me but at this point it is just too much obsession.

I've got an odd request: more often than I like, I have to login to a session from the console. I attach to tmux and I am met with the worlds most disgusting color scheme. You like dark blue on black, right? It's super easy to read. :D Is there a solution to that? I use the rose-pine colorscheme everywhere I can - my personal favorite. In alacritty on a regular desktop setup, it looks wonderful - nerd font deliciousness, and all that. But when I break my rig and have to drop to a console, all of that goes away and the color scheme breaks too. I am ok with missing out on the nerd font icons (although if that's doable in the console that would be great). But I can't stand trying to edit a config file with nvim and seeing blue on black lol. I realize this is unrelated to your session manager. I tried to install it a few weeks ago but I couldn't get it to activate from the keybinding. I have tmux-sessionizer installed and it's become a simple and effective part of my workflow. I use 3-5 sessions typically and save/restore them automatically, etc. I do like the way you integrated zoxide into the session creation - very clean. Maybe it didn't work because I was using tmux-sessionizer at the same time? I'm not sure. Lastly, ssh. I have a few VMs and each of those has a tmux server running. It's kind of a pain for me to load my sesh, then ssh into those servers in each window of my session, and then attach individually to each server's tmux server... Do you have this problem, and have you found any clean ways around it? Btw, I'm using ssh keys that are password protected (MFA ftw) which makes it harder to autoconnect to ssh. Maybe an ssh-agent integration?

I'm really struggling to understand things you're showing in your video, but i already love the way your tmux overall looks. I'm pretty newbie on linux, and only able to somewhat use default tmux with panes (i keep forgetting bind for window's, so i'm not bothered with them for now, and i dont even have any work to do in terminal). I hope future me would understand all the things you're showed up in here with ease. If you have any guide videos, i'll be glad to check them out, cuz i love to learn linux for myself

I'm on Debian based distor, 2 years is cutting edge.

Cool setup. For sessions management, I use tmuxinator (if sessions need to have predefined windows and panes etc). If the session is simply starting a new session from a folder, I use my own script, which is similar to yours but with way less features.

Please make a video about using wezterm and tmux as default setup ❤

how do you integrate it with git worktrees? I have ~/projects and inside, some folders are regular git repos, some are worktrees with nested folders with actual worktrees inside. I want to list only nested ones, not the dir with bare repo.

Nice just started trying out SessionX pretty cool

TUMX is a super utility for managing multiple pans. what terminal are using in the video

Have you tried Zellij, how does it compare to tmux?

Will you eventually make a discord or something?

Wait, no mention of the repo URL in the description? 😆

The "native" session picker is pretty underwhelming. Love your simple approach of a small plugin that lives in your tmux config alongside other tmux plugins. Not sure what the comment about over-engineering is about, unless their definition of "over engineering" is coming up with a solution to a problem that involves writing code (heaven forbid). What I'm seeing is an excellent combination of popular, well maintained tools (fzf, zoxide, charm/glow, bat, tpm) that are neatly tied together with a few bash scripts.

Aren't sessions like having multiple virtual desktops?

i love sessions, separate my brain well

There’s already a session picker in tmux, prefix s. I use a simple fzf script for this with bat preview, which is marginally nicer than the built in picker. Your one looks marginally nicer than the script. However, I really don’t like visual clutter. The best way to reduce visual clutter is to keep the information in your brain. You really should know that session A is for project A’ etc, this eliminates the need for the preview. Of course, the ultimate session switcher would probably involve just hitting some keys and switching immediately without any fzf picker intermediate step. More reliance on memory leads to less reliance on visuals.

I only use tmux for sessions heh

i feel like josh's sesh does all of this and more. Also it exists outside of tmux which gives it the advantage of being fast and can run outside tmux

add which-key nvim on your nvim repo pls

come back here to comment. my man, thank you very much, i couldn't asking more. it is great, really great!!!

zellij

I usually really like the things you showcase, but this one just feels really weird. I honestly can't think of a single usecase for using this over tmux-sessionizer. The whole idea is to have a way to get where you want to go as fast as possible, with as little overhead as possible in terms of cognitive load. What is the point of having a pretty window to show your sessions/windows instead of just fuzzy searching the name of a directory and pressing enter? Maybe it's just not my use case, but in general this feels extremely unnecessary. And about having to add a script to create sessions for you, I agree it would be better if this was a native feature, but I still think that a small 10-line script I can modify myself is WAY better than adding 7 different dependencies to my tmux configs.

I am always on up to date packages , #IUseArchBtw