2013-05-30
I use tmux as my terminal multiplexer and teamocil to manage tmux window layout's. It works quite nicely but then I wanted to customize my layout a little more fancy than normal...
It turns out that gem update teamocil fixed some of the pain I was experiencing as I attempted to make teamocil behave like the documentation.
What I wanted was teamocil to arrange my project window like this:
+-------------------------+----------------+
| | |
| | |
| | 1 |
| | |
| | |
+ 0 +----------------+
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | 2 |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+-------------------------+----------------+
But instead, I just kept getting this:
+--------------------+---------------------+
| |
| 0 |
| |
+--------------------+---------------------+
| |
| 1 |
| |
+--------------------+---------------------+
| |
| 2 |
| |
+--------------------+---------------------+
My original teamocil config looked like this:
session:
name: blog-session
windows:
- name: blog
root: "~/Documents/dev/active/markgemmill.com"
layout: main-vertical
panes:
- cmd: "vim"
width: 75
- cmd: ["ls -al"]
width: 25
- cmd: "wintersmith preview"
width: 25
Teamocil creates a default session called teamocil-session unless you name a session in the config:
... tmux list-sessions
teamocil-session: 1 window (created Thu May 30 11:31:02 2013) [203x52] (attached)
We need to know which window we want to rearrange, so let's see the list of windows:
... tmux list-windows
1: blog* (3 panes) [203x52] [layout e41f,203x52,0,0[203x26,0,0,1,203x12,0,27,3,203x12,0,40,4]] @0 (active)
tmux refers to that window as teamocil-session:1.
In order to rearrange the window, we'll need to run this command:
... tmux select-layout -t teamocil-session:1 main-vertical
We can get the current window layout spec like this:
... tmux list-windows
1: blog* (3 panes) [203x52] [layout 809b,203x52,0,0{13052,0,0,11,72x52,131,0[72x25,131,0,12,72x26,131,26,13]}] @4 (active)
The teamocil documentation has the following example to extract the right info to include in it's config:
...tmux list-windows -F "#{window_active} #{window_layout}" | grep "^1" | cut -d " " -f 2
809b,203x52,0,0{130x52,0,0,11,72x52,131,0[72x25,131,0,12,72x26,131,26,13]}
Paste that text into my config:
session:
name: blog-session
windows:
- name: blog
root: "~/Documents/dev/active/markgemmill.com"
layout: 809b,203x52,0,0{130x52,0,0,11,72x52,131,0[72x25,131,0,12,72x26,131,26,13]}
panes:
- cmd: "vim"
- cmd: ["ls -al"]
- cmd: "wintersmith preview"
...and now I get what I want.