With the daily usage of TMUX after a couple of years, I have my tips to install and customize it to help in the time of daily job.

Usually I have to open a new window into a guest to perform some tasks to test and check the installation of a new fresh machine, so tmux is welcomed when there is limited access for terminals for running parallel and independent jobs.

Tmuxes

So, my localhost could use the PREFIX as CTRL+A because it is more comfortable for me, now the guests with new fresh installation should use the default CTRL+B.

How do you do that? Adding the following command into ~/.tmux.conf

 #using C-a as prefix 
unbind C-b
set-option -g prefix C-a                                                                                      bind C-a send-prefix

Split and conquer

Why not open a pane with the content from another window. Split the pane vertically/horizontally and choose the other window. from ~/.tmux.conf

# split and join other pane
bind < split-window -h \; choose-window 'kill-pane ; join-pane -hs %%'
bind = split-window -v \; choose-window 'kill-pane ; join-pane -vs %%'

Like a browser

For navigation it could add the shortcuts to access the windows as in a browser ALT+Number and Shift+Arrow(Left,Right) to move through the windows. ```# Shift arrow to switch windows bind -n S-Left previous-window bind -n S-Right next-window

Choosing window ALT+Number like a browser

bind -n M-0 select-window -t 0 bind -n M-1 select-window -t 1 bind -n M-2 select-window -t 2 bind -n M-3 select-window -t 3 bind -n M-4 select-window -t 4 bind -n M-5 select-window -t 5 bind -n M-6 select-window -t 6 bind -n M-7 select-window -t 7 bind -n M-8 select-window -t 8 bind -n M-9 select-window -t 9 ```

That all are the most useful tricks I have used.

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