.tmux VS Tmuxinator

Compare .tmux vs Tmuxinator and see what are their differences.

.tmux

🇫🇷 Oh my tmux! My self-contained, pretty & versatile tmux configuration made with ❤️ (by gpakosz)

Tmuxinator

Manage complex tmux sessions easily (by tmuxinator)
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.tmux Tmuxinator
21 44
21,098 12,416
- 0.9%
7.1 6.8
23 days ago 23 days ago
Shell Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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.tmux

Posts with mentions or reviews of .tmux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.
  • Advice to be more efficient with the terminal?
    12 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 27 Feb 2023
  • Why is that when I'm inside tmux $XDG-*-DESKTOP became unset?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 6 Feb 2023
    No I didn't condigure any of it and I"m using oh my tmux conf.
  • What's the oldest version of tmux you're actively using?
    1 project | /r/tmux | 22 Jan 2023
    Oh my tmux! requires tmux 2.4+ and I would like to figure out what's oldest version of tmux people are actively using.
  • Guide to TMUX - Terminal That Remembers Everything
    1 project | dev.to | 5 Jan 2023
    Here's a good source for more in-depth tuning .tmux.conf
  • Getting Started with Tmux
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2022
    Looks like no one has mentioned https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux

    You still need to learn the basics but this lowers the learning curve a lot.

  • Help!
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 5 Nov 2022
    Totally! Lately (this last year or so) i am also using this on top of tmux https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux I don't knmow if you know it, its very close to the old configuration I worte myself, but with more colors :P
  • Emacs running under screen on a Mac, going underline-crazy, and driving me crazy
    1 project | /r/emacs | 20 Oct 2022
    To get started with a decent tmux setup, start here: https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux
  • Can you share your vim story?
    2 projects | /r/vim | 16 Oct 2022
    - [-] The journey has began at some time 2020 - [x] Getting boring with `atom`, `vscode`, `sublime`. Why? 1. Too slow on managing projects, each project takes **2GB** storage 2. `atom` and `vscode` are electron-based app, so it's heavy 3. Sublime is quite good, but heavily on indexing project's files - [x] Try `vim`, doing `vimtutorial`, getting struggled and ... struggled with the new ugly motions `hjkl` - [x] Few weeks passed, still getting struggled with vim - [x] Retried with `doom emacs`, but with vim bindings. Doom also supports many cool plugins - [x] Wao, `doom` is cool, project management is super cool, searching is blazing fast too - [x] Keep trying `doom`, for few weeks - [-] Then, getting boring with `doom`, it's basically emacs with vi-binding layer - [x] Retry `vim` with `bootstrap` [config](https://vim-bootstrap.com/) - [x] After ~2 months, the vim feeling is much better - [x] Add some plugins: `fzf`, session management, `grep/ack` search - [x] Add lsp [coc](https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim) - [x] Add/play with more plugins, yay yay yay !!! - [x] `tpope` plugins are such amazing - [x] Try `tmux`, hmm, quite good - [x] Use this awesome `tmux` [config](https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux) - [-] 2020-07-23 Start doing a personal dotfiles - [x] Keep using `vim` + `tmux` - [x] Move to `neovim` 0.4.0, then `0.5.0+` - [x] Start note-taking with `vimwiki`, then with other plugins - [-] Try `roam`, `obsidian` - [-] Stop using `vimwiki`, not sure what happened ??? Maybe boring mainly - [o] 2022-{01..06} Try other wiki tools, `taskwarrior`, `todoist`, and `orgmode` - [o] Still getting struggled on how to note-taking
  • I did a very stupid thing and I need to share/vent
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 14 Sep 2022
    And if you use tmux, https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux configures SSH integration for you.
  • Tmux hangs after SSH at git credential entry screen - pinentry-curses
    2 projects | /r/tmux | 20 Aug 2022
    I use this popular config. Running Ubuntu Server. I am using Git Credential Manager with pinentry-curses.

Tmuxinator

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tmuxinator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-02.
  • Automating the startup of a dev workflow
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 Jan 2024
    Well, I now use tmux and tmuxinator. I have had many failed tmux attempts over the years, but I'm firmly bedded in now.
  • Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    I once bought a 32 core ThreadRipper and tried to get along with using a cheap £200 Windows 10 laptop to remote into the threadripper while in coffee shops and use the ThreadRipper to do my work.

    The £200 Windows 10 laptop wasn't powerful enough, it was too laggy. Even on Wifi.

    I love the idea of the X11 protocol. And I still love the idea of a web desktop. Something that is supremely well integrated and allows me to move workloads between client and server seamlessly. This idea I really like. The ability to outsource computation and storage seamlessly. A process can be moved between machines seamlessly.

    This could be modelled in Javascript and promises that can be sent around. Microservices in the desktop environment.

    I looked at tools that would bring up tmux sessions with everything preloaded. (https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator)

    ScrapScript has very good ideas in this area of distributing dependencies and storage. (https://scrapscript.org/) There is also val town.

    I never use KDE Plasma widgets or the sidebar widgets that Mac provided.

    There is so many exciting ideas that could be tried out but I worry they're all too big ideas to be implemented.

  • Tmuxinator – manage tmux sessions easily
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2023
  • How to save workspaces?
    2 projects | /r/tmux | 21 Jan 2023
    tmuxinator
  • Getting Started with Tmux
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2022
    I use https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator for my workspaces. Doesn't save ad-hoc layouts, but usually I find one layout that works per project, then create a tmuxinator config for it, so after reboot, it's a short "tmuxinator start $my-project" away to get back to how I want it to be.
  • Is tmux appropriate for automation in a script?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Dec 2022
    you might be interested in: https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
  • A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2022
    I’ve become a huge fan of tmuxinator. Incredible tool for defining templates for tmux.

    https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator

  • Decision to Vim - #2. vim repo and vimtutor, hammerspoon
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Aug 2022
  • zoom only one side of the window?
    3 projects | /r/tmux | 4 Jul 2022
    I doubt that would be possible with tmux's built-in zoom functionality (if it is, I'm not aware). You can use tools such as tmuxinator to create cusotm layouts, but I think "zoom" in tmux means "cover the whole window"
  • Been there, done that
    3 projects | /r/commandline | 21 Jun 2022
    mprocs looks pretty cool. In the past I've used Tmuxinator or Tmuxp configs for stuff like that.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing .tmux and Tmuxinator you can also consider the following projects:

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

tmuxp - 🖥️ Session manager for tmux, build on libtmux.

nord-rofi-theme - An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant rofi color theme.

awesome-tmux - A list of awesome resources for tmux

catppuccin - 😸 Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited!

teamocil - There's no I in Teamocil. At least not where you think. Teamocil is a simple tool used to automatically create windows and panes in tmux with YAML files.

spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

edex-ui - A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

TUI-ConsoleLauncher - Linux CLI Launcher for Android

Terjira - Terjira is a very interactive and easy to use CLI tool for Jira.

starlark-rust - A Rust implementation of the Starlark language

zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included