r/tmux

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.

And it also works with nvim panes too. Basically I had to change the tmux source code in order to

1. add the dimming algorithm
2. inject the correct RBG values at runtime so the dimming works correctly (otherwise it looks off because we have to convert ANSI to RBG which is an approximation and then apply the dimming and THEN convert back to ANSI)

But yeah I think it’s pretty cool cus now I have a clear visual indication of which pane I’m currently on. And it’s all bootstrapped using nix (I had to pin the tmux version b.c. any updates could cause the patches I added to break) so that way it builds and works the exact same across my computers 🤓🤓🤓

https://anonymous.4open.science/r/chud-methodology-1477/README.md

I wrote a bash script for fuzzy finding a loaded Tmux buffer across all running instances of Neovim inside of your Tmux panes. Upon selection of a file, it will switch to that pane and buffer.

https://gist.github.com/mikeslattery/444f4fef4a20cfe786ba323a081262f7

On my system it's at ~/bin/fzfbuf. It should work for Mac, BSD Unix, and Linux, but it's only tested on Linux.

Requires: fzf bat eza

https://github.com/BatsShadow/tmux-superclick

Fork as you may. I built this for myself - I will entertain PRs, but don't intend to turn into a big maintainer. It does well for me after only working on it for a few hours

~30ms cold start.

hackable via ~/.config/tmux-palette/*.json

Repo here: https://github.com/eduwass/tmux-palette

Write-up here: https://eduwass.com/tmux-palette/

Small tmux plugin for session-linked popup notes. I've created it for mostly personal use, but maybe some of you will find it useful.

Each session can keep its own active note, and the editor state persists between popup open/close (hidden tmux session in the background).

Repo + install:

https://github.com/szymonwilczek/tmux-jot

If you try it, I'd appreciate practical feedback on keybind defaults and popup sizing behavior.

Have a nice day!

I built an agent control dashboard that uses T bucks as the Multiplex are to control all the terminal sessions with a cursor agent, and I use Python to Bridge into a web app and xterm to help control the number of sessions that I have going would be curious what the community thinks of this it!!

I've moved from session terminal based setup to tmux (3.6+). here is my simple self-contained setup. tmux (or similar multiplexer) are by far the easier solution for agent orchestration for terminal lovers.

repo: https://github.com/S1M0N38/tau