Buttons for new panes in tmux

Question

I find Ctrl+b " and Ctrl+b x to be difficult to press quickly. I know you can change the prefix to something else, and rebind keys.

However I'd ideally like buttons that allow me to create new panes and close them. This would work well with the mouse mode I'm already using to resize and switch to panes. Is there a tmux plugin that would give me buttons like this?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '19 at 13:51

You can build tmux from master or 3.0 and then use the menus. If you have mouse on, then you can right click on a pane to split it or kill it (or Meta + right click if it is copy mode or running an application that uses the mouse):

If you don't like the default menus then you can customize them by changing the key bindings.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 15 '19 at 14:27

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Actually, perhaps you are talking about mouse buttons - you can bind the mouse buttons to anything you like, for example:

bind -n M-DoubleClick1 split-window

Will make Meta + double click split the pane.

edited Oct 15 '19 at 14:27

muru

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answered Oct 15 '19 at 14:02

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No I was talking about buttons inside tmux itself, as in your first answer. I am trying to build tmux from source now although I'm having difficult, I will accept your answer once I can get it to work! – Adam Griffiths Oct 15 '19 at 14:07
What is the difficulty? tmux should be pretty easy to build. – Nicholas Marriott Oct 15 '19 at 14:09
`At top level: cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-unused-result" make: *** [control.o] Error 1` when I execute `make` – Adam Griffiths Oct 15 '19 at 14:10
That is a warning, what is the error message? Are you trying to use libevent 1.4? What platform are you on? – Nicholas Marriott Oct 15 '19 at 14:13
Yes I have installed libevent-1.4.13 and libevent-devel. I'm on redhat linux – Adam Griffiths Oct 15 '19 at 14:16
1.4.13 is very old, you can use it but you need to open tmux's control.c and comment out line 79 that says evbuffer_readln - just put a // at the start, then it should build. – Nicholas Marriott Oct 15 '19 at 14:18
that worked, thanks! – Adam Griffiths Oct 15 '19 at 14:21
Great just note that with this line commented out control mode won't work, but unless you are using the tmux integration in iTerm2 on OS X you won't need it. – Nicholas Marriott Oct 15 '19 at 14:24

Buttons for new panes in tmux

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