Start up tmux with custom windows, panes and applications running

starttmux.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# Setup a work space called `work` with two windows
# first window has 3 panes. 
# The first pane set at 65%, split horizontally, set to api root and running vim
# pane 2 is split at 25% and running redis-server 
# pane 3 is set to api root and bash prompt.
# note: `api` aliased to `cd ~/path/to/work`
#
session="work"

# set up tmux
tmux start-server

# create a new tmux session, starting vim from a saved session in the new window
tmux new-session -d -s $session -n vim #"vim -S ~/.vim/sessions/kittybusiness"

# Select pane 1, set dir to api, run vim
tmux selectp -t 1 
tmux send-keys "api;vim" C-m 

# Split pane 1 horizontal by 65%, start redis-server
tmux splitw -h -p 35
tmux send-keys "redis-server" C-m 

# Select pane 2 
tmux selectp -t 2
# Split pane 2 vertiacally by 25%
tmux splitw -v -p 75

# select pane 3, set to api root
tmux selectp -t 3
tmux send-keys "api" C-m 

# Select pane 1
tmux selectp -t 1

# create a new window called scratch
tmux new-window -t $session:1 -n scratch

# return to main vim window
tmux select-window -t $session:0

# Finished setup, attach to the tmux session!
tmux attach-session -t $session

Thank you for this! But there are several things that I don't understand.

1. What is the function of whitespace after C-m on line 20 and 24? I remove the whitespace and it is still works.

2. I try to use my script without tmux start-server, and it still work perfectly.

Once again, thank you! this gist is the best.

Great script!!

Love it, thanks a ton for the script.

Carefuly read man page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tmux.1.html @AffanIndo

Thank you for this! But there are several things that I don't understand.

1. What is the function of whitespace after C-m on line 20 and 24? I remove the whitespace and it is still works.
   m Mark the current pane (see select-pane -m).
2. I try to use my script without tmux start-server, and it still work perfectly.

Once again, thank you! this gist is the best.

start-server
(alias: start)
Start the tmux server, if not already running, without creating
any sessions.

send-keys [-lMRX] [-N repeat-count] [-t target-pane] key ...
(alias: send)
Send a key or keys to a window. Each argument key is the name
of the key (such as ‘C-a’ or ‘NPage’) to send; if the string is
not recognised as a key, it is sent as a series of characters.
The -l flag disables key name lookup and sends the keys liter‐
ally. All arguments are sent sequentially from first to last.
The -R flag causes the terminal state to be reset.

         -M passes through a mouse event (only valid if bound to a mouse
         key binding, see MOUSE SUPPORT).

         -X is used to send a command into copy mode - see the WINDOWS
         AND PANES section.  -N specifies a repeat count.

awesome, thanks!

Very nice, much thanks, it makes my day easier.

As long as we are here, you might consider getting on the tmux-resurrect train https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect along with other plugins with tmux-plugin-manager. Pretty simple to save and restore apps that are running, but some are non-default and you can add them with

set -g @resurrect-processes '~cmus'

Brilliant!

Thank you!!

Thank you @todgru

This is excellent, thank you! I was going to toil away writing my own but i'm glad i found yours :D

Thanks!

Very helpful, thanks for posting this!

@niouby you're too kind! ❤️ glad I could help!
@joshbaptiste you are welcome!
@azizLIGHT glad you like it!
@jpdippenaarS excellent! 🤘
@iosifv too kind!
@AffanIndo you're welcome! great questions - see @develforever got you covered.
@zackyaple thanks!
@kosivantsov anytime!
@develforever thanks for the contribution - nice work!
@rcgoodfellow you're welcome!
@botenvouwer nice! work smarter not harder 😎
@cmdcolin tmux-resurrect looks like a very useful tool! thank you!
@mcai4gl2 nah, i just searched man pages to figure this stuff out 😊 thank you!
@bilalelhoudaigui you're welcome!
@maluramichael you're welcome, anytime!
@aamnah you're welcome! i'm happy to have helped you save time and effort!
@setymedia you're welcome!
@darzyx glad i could help out!

thanks to everyone for the stars! 🤩
🎉 happy holidays! 🎄 🕎 ☪️ 🎉

Nice

Thanks for posting it 👍

Thanks!

thanks for posting, helped me a lot to set up my startup script 👍🏼

Much appreciated for this script. I was able to modify it to automate the launch of different ncmpcpp panes for displaying the media library, playlist and visualization.

Amazing

This is great! Thank you

thanks !