Reconfigure tmux on overmind boot

brasic commented 5 years ago

I use tmux as my terminal multiplexer, so I thought overmind would be a great fit. But running overmind connect inside an existing tmux session results in a nested session. Nesting tmux sessions is fine, but it's only really usable if the inner and outer sessions have different prefix keys. I couldn't find a way to achieve this automatically with overmind. Here are some possible ways:

optionally pass -f <alternate config path> to overmind's tmux invocation, so that overmind's tmux session is configured with a different prefix from my "everyday" tmux.conf.
a way to run arbitrary commands at overmind launch via an rcfile of some kind, so I can run tmux send-keys to rebind the prefix
some other thing I haven't thought of, maybe one that already exists?

I'd be happy to open a PR to implement one of the above if a maintainer is interested!

DarthSim commented 5 years ago

Hi,

v2.0.3 supports -F flag for an alternative tmux config.

brasic commented 5 years ago

That is perfect, thanks so much!

tannakartikey commented 1 year ago

@brasic can you please share your Overmind tmux config? I use Tmux too but not pro enough to make both work.

Appreciate it. Thanks

For now, I just did overmind s -F /dev/null to open tmux with the default config.

DarthSim / overmind

Reconfigure tmux on overmind boot #55