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Terminal presentation setup with tmux and powerline

This is a short description of my tmux and powerline setup used for presentations with terminal mirroring. I used this for the first time at Spring I/O 2018.

System preparation

Install required packages

I run my presentations on Debian GNU/Linux Stretch with zsh and tmux with a extended screen setup with these packages:

sudo apt install zsh tmux powerline

Set zsh as login shell

sudo chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh demouser

Enable powerline for zsh

add the following to the end of ~demouser/.zshrc:

powerline-daemon -q
source /usr/share/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh

Enable powerline for tmux

add the following to ~demouser/.tmux.conf:

source "/usr/share/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf"

Start tmux session on presenter screen

Login as demouser open a terminal and run:

tmux new-session -c ~/projects/demodir -s demo zsh

Attach to tmux session on projector

Open another terminal window (Ctrl+Shift+T in GNOME Terminal) and attach to the same tmux session:

tmux attach-session -t demo

move the terminal to the demo screen / projector and adapt font size to be readable by the audience.

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