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 with 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"

README.md

tmuxifier

Example

Installation

Custom Installaton Path

License