Muxi

Create dynamic shortcuts for your tmux sessions!

Install

cargo install muxi

Usage

❯ muxi
Create bookmarks for your tmux sessions on the fly! 🚀

Usage: muxi <COMMAND>

Commands:
  init         Register within Tmux and add bindings
  config       See and edit your settings
  sessions     See and manage your muxi sessions
  completions  Generate completions for your shell
  fzf          Spawn a FZF popup to manage your muxi sessions
  help         Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

Configuration

TOML

You can provide a settings.toml in one of the following locations:

• $MUXI_CONFIG_PATH
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/muxi/
• ~/.config/muxi/

Or run muxi config edit to open it in your favorite $EDITOR

# Optional: Use tmux <prefix> to define muxi's table (default: true)
tmux_prefix = true

# Optional: Muxi's table binding (default: "g"), will result in `<prefix>g`
muxi_prefix = "g"

# Optional: Uppercase letters will set the current session (default: false)
uppercase_overrides = false

# Optional bindings to be created on tmux's muxi table (Examples shown)
[bindings]
# <prefix>ge => edit your sessions file (You can pass optional arguments to your editor after "--")
e = { popup = { title = " sessions " }, command = "muxi sessions edit -- +ZenMode" }

# <prefix>gc => edit config
c = { popup = { title = " config " }, command = "muxi config edit" }

# <prefix>gs => session switcher
s = { popup = { title = " muxi " }, command = "muxi sessions switch --interactive" }

# <prefix>gf => FZF integration
f = { command = "muxi fzf" }

# <prefix>gt => session switcher (native tmux menu)
t = { command = "muxi sessions switch --tmux-menu" }

# You can bind your own commands too!
# `tmux run-shell "tmux switch-client -l"`
M-Space = { command = "tmux switch-client -l" }

[bindings.g]
command = "tmux send htop Enter"

[bindings.l]
# popup = {
#   title = "optional title",
#   width = "60%", (default: 75%)
#   height = "60%", (default: 75%)
# }
popup = { width = "75%", height = "60%" }
command = "muxi sessions | less"

And start muxi in your tmux.conf:

if "type muxi" {
    run -b "muxi init"
}

Tmux variables

You can alternatively define settings entirely from your tmux config:

# Optional settings (default values shown)
set -g @muxi-use-tmux-prefix 'on'      # on|off
set -g @muxi-prefix 'g'                # Any valid tmux key, like `M-Space`
set -g @muxi-uppercase-overrides 'off' # on|off

# Init muxi
if "type muxi" {
  # If you're going to define bindings on the muxi table, don't use `-b`
  run "muxi init"
}

# Define bindings on the muxi table:
# <prefix>ge => Edit sessions in your editor
bind -T muxi e popup -w 76% -h 75% -b rounded -T " sessions " -E "muxi sessions edit -- +ZenMode -c 'nmap <silent> q :wqa<cr>'"

# TIP: Using the native tmux menu is a good alternative to the common workflow,
# it'll map your session bindings to the menu
bind 'f' run 'muxi sessions switch --tmux-menu'

Sessions

Running muxi sessions edit will open your sessions.toml file, which should look something like the following:

# <key> = { name = <session_name>, path = <session_path> }
d = { name = "dotfiles", path = "~/.dotfiles" }
m = { name = "muxi", path = "~/Sites/rust/muxi/" }
n = { name = "notes", path = "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/notes" }

This is the file that muxi will use to generate your session bindings and keep state. After exiting your editor, muxi will resync the sessions (same with your configuration!)