Tmuxifier is inspired by the excellent tmuxinator Project. While tmuxinator is childishly easy to configure with it's YAML project files, it's also restricting me from the kind of powerful control I want over Tmux.

To solve this problem, I opted for shell scripts with pretty helper functions instead of the cleaner but more limiting YAML config files. This allows you to create pre-defined session and window layouts with panes spit exactly as you like. You will need to be very familiar with a few of Tmux's commands however.

Example

Given we have a window layout file called example.window.sh which looks like:

window_name "Example Window"
window_root "~/Desktop"
tmux new-window -t "$session" -n "$window"
tmux split-window -t "$session:$window.0" -v -p 20 "watch -t date"
tmux split-window -t "$session:$window.1" -h -p 60
tmux select-pane -t "$session:$window.0"

You can then load that window layout into a new window in the current tmux session using:

tmuxifier window example

Which will yield a Tmux window looking like this:

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jimeh/tmuxifier.git ~/.tmuxifier

And add the following to your ~/.profile or equivalent:

[[ -s "$HOME/.tmuxifier/init.sh" ]] && source "$HOME/.tmuxifier/init.sh"

Custom Installaton Path

To install Tmuxifier to a custom path, clone the repository to your desired path, and set $TMUXIFIER to that path, additionally loading init.sh from that same path.

export TMUXIFIER="$HOME/.dotfiles/tmuxifier"
[[ -s "$TMUXIFIER/init.sh" ]] && source "$TMUXIFIER/init.sh"

Heed My Warning

Tmuxifier is pretty much an alpha product at this point. Documentation is sketchy at best, and things might drastically change further down the line. If that doesn't put you off, enjoy Tmuxifier :)

README.md

Tmuxifier

Example

Installation

Custom Installaton Path

Heed My Warning

License