The configuration reference

What follows is the configuration file that we built over the course of Chapter 2, Configuring tmux:

# Enable mouse mode for mouse scrolling (tmux 1.9a+) set-window-option –g mouse-mode on # Enable mouse for selecting the window by clicking on the title # in the status bar set-option -g mouse-select-window on # Enable mouse for selecting the pane by clicking on it set-option -g mouse-select-pane on # Enable the mouse for clicking and dragging to resize panes set-option -g mouse-resize-pane on # Set the status bar background to blue set-option -g status-bg blue # Set the status bar text to white set-option -g status-fg white # Widen the status-left a bit to fit more set-option -g status-left-length 25 # Change status-left ...

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