Byobu, Tmux & Vim

This is a little writeup on how to get a very useful terminal setup on any Debian based Linux. Example of my setup below:

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My custom .bashrc file, give me a customized prompt (current directory and size as well as previous commands exit status). In addition to this it provides a whack of aliases to make commands simpler to type, as well as some pseudo functions. Download from pastebin HERE


Installing my custom bashrc

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-fast apt-file nano lynx more less tmux byobu

Open bashrc from pastebin above and save to ~/.bashrc Open a terminal and try it out!


Useful apt-get aliases

  • install : sudo apt-fast install
  • addrepo : sudo add-apt-repository
  • searchIn : apt-file search

Useful shorthand aliases

  • murder : ‘kill -9’
  • alert : Useful for things like “make; alert” and when complete will pop up an on screen notification.
  • hist : Grep through bash history, very useful.

Useful pseudo programs

  • extract : Automatically appends the needed options to tar for you.
  • netinfo : shows network information for your system
  • downforme : Check to see if a site is down for everyone or just me
  • cp_pro : copy with progress bar
  • mkdir_go : make a directory and enter into it
  • bu : Back up a file by appending UNIXTIME.backup

Solarized dark256 color scheme

  • Get the color scheme for tmux HERE just copy 256 pallet to ~/.tmux.conf
  • Vim plugins and highlighters HERE
  • Edit ~./vimrc and add ‘set number’ and ‘set relativenumber’
  • Solarizer ‘ls’ dircolors HERE
  • Gnome-term solerized pallet HERE. I had to select the background to be slightly darker than the tmux status bar manually in gnome-term as I did not like the blue/green default.