Written by Guillermo Gómez Savino
As always in my carrer i’ve been pushed by the needs to solve and specific problem, this time i was just about to upgrade my Fedora 29 to Fedora 30, i’m already late! Then i was to reboot and proceed and then accounted my tmux list-sessions to try to recover them later on. Then it came to me the idea that there should be a sort of “restore my session” support for tmux, and as almost always happens with FOSS, we have a solution and searching the net the way to go.
If you are new to tmux plugins, as i am, start by reviewing your tmux version. This is what i get from my F29 installation.
~(gomix) tmux -V
tmux 2.9a
~(gomix) rpm -qi tmux
Name : tmux
Version : 2.9a
Release : 2.fc29
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Sun 09 Jun 2019 09:35:43 AM EDT
Group : Unspecified
Size : 827204
License : ISC and BSD
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sun 12 May 2019 09:36:38 PM EDT, Key ID a20aa56b429476b4
Source RPM : tmux-2.9a-2.fc29.src.rpm
Build Date : Sun 12 May 2019 09:29:29 PM EDT
Build Host : buildvm-24.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : Fedora Project
Vendor : Fedora Project
URL : https://tmux.github.io/
Bug URL : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/tmux
Summary : A terminal multiplexer
Description :
tmux is a "terminal multiplexer." It enables a number of terminals (or
windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal. tmux is
intended to be a simple, modern, BSD-licensed alternative to programs suchAs i can verify from tmux main site at github, we have in F29 a very recent version. Also, before trying to install from other methods, i made a search on dnf repos:
~(gomix) dnf search tmux
...
======================================= Name Exactly Matched: tmux =======================================
tmux.x86_64 : A terminal multiplexer
====================================== Name & Summary Matched: tmux ======================================
tmux-powerline.noarch : Powerline for tmux
python2-libtmux.noarch : Scripting library for tmux
python3-libtmux.noarch : Scripting library for tmux
tmuxinator-doc.noarch : Documentation for tmuxinator
tmuxinator.noarch : Create and manage complex tmux sessions easily
tmux-top.x86_64 : Monitoring information for your tmux status line.We don’t really have a first support for tmux plugins from Fedora packages, perhaps you can start packaging some to get involved in Fedora.
Moving on into my cruise to F29 -> F30 upgrade and “restore my sessions in tmux”, the tmux plugins needed to solve the problem are:
So, i need to install them, how? We know already know we can’t from Fedora official repos, what about third party repos? After a quick search on third party common dnf/yum repos, i don’t find any, so i move forward with Tmux Plugin Manager (tpm) instructions.
~(gomix) git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
Cloning into '/home/gomix/.tmux/plugins/tpm'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 904, done.
remote: Total 904 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 904
Receiving objects: 100% (904/904), 189.41 KiB | 132.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (577/577), done.My ~/.tmux.conf added lines:
...
# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
# Other examples:
# set -g @plugin 'github_username/plugin_name'
# set -g @plugin 'git@github.com/user/plugin'
# set -g @plugin 'git@bitbucket.com/user/plugin'
# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run -b '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'Since tmux is running, i do have to reload the configuration:
~(gomix) tmux source ~/.tmux.confInstalling plugins with tpm
Add new plugin to ~/.tmux.conf with set -g @plugin ‘…’
...
# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum'Press prefix + I (capital i, as in Install) to fetch the plugins in a tmux session. You can see the sources are installed looking at your configured tmux plugins directory:
~(gomix) ls ~/.tmux/plugins/
tmux-continuum tmux-resurrect tmux-sensible tpmFinal setup just needs another configuration line added:
set -g @continuum-restore 'on'Usage
With this configuration, there’s no need to do anything manually. Your tmux sessions will be automatically saved every 15 minutes and automatically restored when tmux is started (e.g. after a reboot). You can manually save with prefix-Ctrl-s and manually restore with prefix-Ctrl-r if desired.
Guillermo
tags: foss