SEsetopt·Aug 29, 2024
I dropped the prefix entirely:
https://github.com/jabirali/tmux-tilish
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jabirali / tmux-tilish
tmux-tilish
Plugin which makes tmux work and feel like i3wm
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What it is
Plugin which makes tmux work and feel like i3wm
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesHave you tried `tmux-tilish` [1]?
It’s a tmux plugin that replaces the default Ctrl-b keybindings with the same keybindings used in i3wm (including turning on automatic tiling instead of manual splitting). Given that you use i3wm on your desktop, you might like it :)
[1]: https://github.com/jabirali/tmux-tilish
In Tmux is worse-is-betterYes, and there are a number of other configurations doing the same. This is another recent one https://github.com/jabirali/tmux-tilish that works as a tmux plugin.
In Tmux for Mere MortalsHey everyone,
I recently made a tmux plugin called tilish [1], which tries to port the i3wm keybindings and user experience over to tmux. This is perhaps most interesting for people that enjoy window managers like i3wm and sway, and would like their terminal sessions to behave a bit more like that; either when working remotely over ssh, or when working on computers without i3wm available.
However, I personally find the i3wm keybindings to be efficient and intuitive, and find dynamic tiling via tmux layouts to be a better workflow than manually splitting panes. The plugin may therefore be of interest also to people who don't have any experience with i3wm or sway, but do use tmux regularly.
Note that this is similar to the project 3mux [2], which was also announced here a few days ago. The main difference between our projects is that 3mux i
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s a tmux replacement, while tilish is a tmux plugin. Thus, 3mux is a larger and more advanced undertaking, but tilish can easily be adopted on any machine that already has tmux available (you just have to copy over the right tmux.conf).
If you try out tilish, I'd be happy to receive feedback! :)
[1]: https://github.com/jabirali/tmux-tilish
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843705
Show HN: Tilish – Tmux plugin that emulates i3wm
4 points · Open discussionThis https://github.com/jabirali/tmux-tilish is a different solution with a similar goal - to make tmux work more like a tiling WM.
In Show HN: Terminal Multiplexer Inspired by I3