Config

Config¶

• ~/.tmux.conf
• ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf (XDG Base Directory specification)

Tmux looks for configuration files in the following locations, in order of precedence:

1. Command line option: -f path
2. User's config: ~/.tmux.conf
3. System-wide config: /etc/tmux.conf
4. ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf (XDG Base Directory specification) # newer versions

The most common location used is ~/.tmux.conf

You can verify which config file tmux is using by running:

tmux show-options -g config-file

And you can check what version of tmux you're running (which might affect config file locations) with:

tmux -V

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf: source changes without restarting session