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Reputation: 13246

.tmux.conf not being read on Mac but being read on Linux?

I am trying to simply change the prefix key on my tmux setup from C-b, to C-\

On both my linux and Mac OS X computers I have a file named .tmux.conf file in ~/

All of the settings in the file are applied on my linux system, however none of them are applied on my Mac and I am wondering if anyone knows why this might be?

This is my .tmux.conf:

# Set colors
set-option -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

# Set reload key to r
# bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf

# Change prefix
unbind-key C-b
set -g prefix 'C-\'
bind-key 'C-\' send-prefix

# Count sessions start at 1
set -g base-index 1

# Set the title bar
set -g set-titles on
set -g set-titles-string '#(whoami) :: #h :: #(curl ipecho.net/plain;echo)'

# Set status bar
set -g status-utf8 on
set -g status-bg black
set -g status-fg white
set -g status-interval 5 
set -g status-left-length 90
set -g status-right-length 60
set -g status-left "#[fg=Green]#(whoami)#[fg=white]::#[fg=blue]#(hostname -s)#[fg=white]::#[fg=yellow]#(curl ipecho.net/plain;echo)"
set -g status-justify left
set -g status-right '#[fg=Cyan]#S #[fg=white]%a %d %b %R'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2337

Answers (1)

deimus
deimus

Reputation: 9893

Apparently you haven't started tmux-server, it's tmux-server that reads ~/.tmux.conf file on startup, but not tmux session.

Try to kill all tmux sessions and restart the tmux-server e.g. 

$ tmux kill-server

Alternatively try to reload ~/.tmux.conf without restarting server like this

:source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Probably there are errors in configuration file.

Upvotes: 5

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