tmux does not tile panes automatically, it is up to you to tile them. You can always bind a key to "splitw; selectl some-layout" if you want it to happen every time you split.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:34:33PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Being accustomed to xmonad's layout model, I find the tmux one a little > confusing. In xmonad (at least as _I_ use it), one has a set of apps[0] > open, and these are automatically tiled according to some layout > heuristic[1], such as "divide apps equally, side-by-side". > > However, in xmonad, an app might be running but not currently visible > onscreen. This is most noticable in the default layout heuristic, which > is "show only one app, filling the display". > > Now, I come to tmux, which has windows *and* panes. It looked like I > can get something very like xmonad by simply using only one window, and > always creating frames, e.g. using ^B" instead of ^Bc. I can then use > :next-layout to switch layout heuristic. > > But: confusion! There is no "just one app" layout in tmux! My first > guess is that there must be some way to move apps out of the current > window (without killing them), such that "just one app" is simply to > move all but the current app into a second "unmapped apps" window. But > I can't find such a command. > > Have I simply misunderstood the "right" way to use panes and windows in > tmux? > > Going from ratpoison to xmonad, or screen to tmux, and having the WM > automatically manage the :split/:only/:remove/:resize operations via > user-defined layout heuristics is the "killer feature" for me, so I'd > quite like to grok how tmux wants me to do it :-) > > [0] I use "app" to mean an X client window (e.g. xlogo) or a tty client > (e.g. top), so as not to conflate X11 windows with tmux windows. > > [1] I believe most (all?) tiling window managers of the dwm era support > layout heuristics, but I'm only familiar with xmonad. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
