One tip that Works For Me (tm) is to map the rarely-used function keys to pane and window selection commands (I hate multi-key commands :))
I've got F1/F2 mapped to cycle through panes, and F3/F4 to cycle through windows, F5/F6 to split windows, F7/F8 to resize panes, and F9 to open a new window.
Also, I always run my tmux terminal fullscreen and without the menubar.
Hope this helps. It's nothing fancy. No, no probs with 'top'.
# use ^K instead of default ^B.
set-option -g prefix C-k
unbind-key C-b
bind-key C-k send-prefix
# F1, F2 to cycle between windows within a "workspace".
# what tmux calls "windows" are like workspaces in WindowMaker.
# and what it calls "panes" are like individual xterm windows in a workspace.
bind-key -n F2 select-pane -t:.+
bind-key -n F1 select-pane -t:.-
# F3, F4 to cycle between workspaces.
bind-key -n F3 previous-window
bind-key -n F4 next-window
# F5 split a workspace horizontally and F6 to split vertically.
bind-key -n F5 split-window
bind-key -n F6 split-window -h
# F9 new workspace
bind-key -n F9 new-window
# to disconnect from tmux do: ^K+d
# or exit all the windows you created.
bind-key -n F7 resize-pane -L
bind-key -n F8 resize-pane -R
Thank you, unfortunately I dont know why but F1-F4 are not working, while F5,F6,F9 works. I'm using putty, dont know if this matters. When i press F1,F2,F3,F4 i got ~ on the shell
One tip that Works For Me (tm) is to map the rarely-used function keys to pane and window selection commands (I hate multi-key commands :))
I've got F1/F2 mapped to cycle through panes, and F3/F4 to cycle through windows, F5/F6 to split windows, F7/F8 to resize panes, and F9 to open a new window.
Also, I always run my tmux terminal fullscreen and without the menubar.
YMMV.