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Do you want the power of a fully loaded tmux plugin framework without installing a single plugin?
One file. No plugin managers. No dependencies. No setup. Drop it on any machine and it just works.
What you get feels like a desktop app: a menu system with submenus, a 21-app launcher, searchable help, a built-in scratchpad, a system dashboard, and a fully clickable status bar. All in a beautiful adaptive interface that auto-detects your fonts and scales from Nerd Font icons to plain ASCII on a TTY.
The status bar knows when you are in SSH and moves out of the way. The clipboard works everywhere including over SSH. Every feature degrades gracefully. Nothing breaks if a tool is missing.
To install:
wget -O ~/.tmux.conf https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimate-tmux/files/_tmux.conf/download
Also includes: system tray icon (tmux-tray), terminal launchers for 5 terminals, and a WezTerm config.
Companion: Extreme Ultimate .bashrc (sourceforge.net/projects/ultimate-bashrc)
Features
- Single file, no plugins or plugin managers required
- Three-tier adaptive rendering: Nerd Font, Powerline, and plain text (auto-detected)
- Graceful TTY/console support with 16-color mode
- Quick action menu with Panes, Layouts, Launch, and Toggles submenus
- Launch menu with 21 TUI apps in 6 categories (monitors, files, disk, git, containers, network)
- fzf session picker with live color preview of each session
- Scratchpad popup editor with auto-detected best editor (17 editors supported)
- No knowledge of tmux keybindings needed, everything is accessible from clickable menus
- Searchable keybinding help via fzf popup
- SSH/mosh detection: status bar auto-swaps to bottom during remote sessions
- Cross-platform clipboard: xsel, xclip, wl-copy, pbcopy, clip.exe, OSC 52 for SSH
- Fully clickable status bar: git branch, hostname menu, session picker, right-click tab context menu, help search
- System tray icon (tmux-tray) with session management and auto-detected terminal
- Terminal launcher scripts for WezTerm, Alacritty, Kitty, Konsole, and XFCE4 Terminal
- Pane border labels showing git branch or directory (toggleable)
- Dual prefix support: Ctrl-a (screen users) and Ctrl-b (tmux default)
- Adaptive status bar hides elements as window count grows to save space
- Fast git dirty check using git diff --quiet (short-circuits on first change)
- Quake-style popup shell at the top of the screen (backtick or tilde)
- Completely free and open software using the MIT License
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