Hi > I'm trying to get colors right in tmux and just updated to the latest > snapshot to see if I get it running. > > Ways I'm trying to initialize tmux: > > $ TERM=screen tmux > $ TERM=screen tmux -2 > $ TERM=screen tmux -8 > $ TERM=screen tmux -d
Unless you are running tmux inside screen, you should not use TERM=screen outside. You should have TERM=screen /inside/ tmux. tmux will set that itself but you should be careful not to change it in shell startup files. > Actually this problem appears specifically when running alpine. When in > tmux, I can just see one or one or two colors. No problem in mc. Is this e By default, it appears alpine has colours disabled. Can you go to the colour menu (S then K), and make sure the color style is set to "use-termdef"? > related to the application itself? No problems running in screen, > though. > > Speaking of layouts, it seems that some commands which work inside tmux > can't be used in ~/.tmux.conf: > > I'm trying this in ~/.tmux.conf: > > select-layout main-vertical > > I get this: > > /home/dbolgheroni/.tmux.conf: can't establish current session at line 3 You are trying to set the layout before any sessions have been created, see below. > No problem if I comment this line. > > If I use something like new-window in conf file, tmux doesn't get > started, nor an error message shows up. This is probably due to a bug I have fixed earlier today (cmd.c r1.9). Even with this fix, you will not be able to use new-window/select-layout in the configuration file without creating a session first. The usual way to create initial windows in the configuration file is to have something like: # create new session with emacs in window 0 new emacs # create some more windows neww top neww # split the previous window and set its layout splitw splitw selectl even-vertical Then start the tmux server with "tmux attach" (or "tmux start"). If you start it with "tmux new", tmux will load the configuration file - creating the session and windows with the commands in it - then create the second new session requested by the "new" command on the command line. I'd like to make this a bit more obvious but so far I haven't thought of a good solution. > Also, when in tmux, I can't have the behaviour expected by main-vertical > unless I already splitted window. Is this normal? I don't understand what you mean. None of the layouts can do anything unless you have multiple panes already. If you want to force a window to take up only part of the full terminal size, you can use the force-width and force-height options. Regards Nicholas
