Alternatives to byobu as a tmux distribution?

Question

Are there good alternatives for byobu as a tmux distribution?. Minimal, stable and that just works? or most tmux users just learn tmux specifics and configure it all by themselves?

Answer 1

I wondered on this question a while ago since byobu was getting huge and I didn't necessarily wanted all of it.

So it seems like tmux users in general are like vim/emacs ones, they tend to write quite personalized ~/.tmux.conf files.

There is however a recent attempt to create a more general tmux plugin environment:

• tpm
• tmux-plugins

Unfortunately it targets recent tmux versions (>=1.9). Since I'm stuck with tmux 1.6 on some systems (Ubuntu Precise), I've forked the most popular plugins on:

• tundle
• tundle-plugins

So those seem to be the current alternatives.