Tmux: resize pane with percent

Created on 26 Apr 2016 · 5Comments · Source: tmux/tmux

it is great that one can create new pane using split-window with size specified by percent (-p), however, it seems for resize-pane command, it lacks such way to adjust.

It would be nice to have -p option available to resize command as if I switch tmux from a larger screen to a smaller one, the pane might need also get resized.

my current workaround is to add tmux map that calls tput cols or tput lines to compute height/width and feed into resize. If I write those into a shell script, and call it directly it works. But if it was called through tmux by binding it to a key and then using run-shell, it doesn't show the terminal height/width correctly.

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dragonxlwang

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Now I am using #{pane_height}. And if I want to resize a pane the same as -p 20, I would need to do:

HEIGHT=$(($(tmux display-message -p '#{pane_height}') / 5))
tmux resize-pane -y $HEIGHT

which seems a little too complex

dragonxlwang on 27 Apr 2016

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Added this to the TODO file.

nicm on 27 Apr 2016

Oh you should be able to use session_width, client_width, etc formats to get the current width and height.

nicm on 27 Apr 2016

Now I am using #{pane_height}. And if I want to resize a pane the same as -p 20, I would need to do:

HEIGHT=$(($(tmux display-message -p '#{pane_height}') / 5))
tmux resize-pane -y $HEIGHT

which seems a little too complex

dragonxlwang on 27 Apr 2016

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I use Putty to login to a remote Ubuntu server from windows.

If I log out by disconnecting from tmux (ctrl+b+d) and then log back in to the same session before, the pane sizes change somewhat. Then I have to figure out what the previous pane size was. It would be very helpful if I could set the pane sizes to scale proportionately to whatever the full window height and width