u/tymonn

I often have a bunch of tmux sessions open, and switching by name alone was starting to feel limiting. I wanted something closer to Mission Control, but inside tmux.

So I built tmux.expose: a small Rust TUI that shows your tmux sessions in a responsive grid with live text previews, so you can visually pick the workspace you want.

Features:

• Live tmux session thumbnails
• ANSI color-aware previews
• Keyboard navigation with arrows / hjkl
• Fuzzy session search with /
• Mouse click to switch sessions
• Runs directly in tmux or inside a tmux popup
• TPM plugin support
• Default binding: Alt+e
• Press Alt+e again to close the popup without switching

Install:

cargo install tmux-expose

With TPM:

set -g u/plugin 'cesarferreira/tmux.expose'

Then reload/install plugins and press Alt+e.

GitHub: https://github.com/cesarferreira/tmux.expose

I’d love feedback from tmux users, especially around default keybindings, popup sizing, and whether the previews show the right amount of context.