Start numbering tmux windows from index one
October 13, 2020 ‐ 1 min read
With tmux the windows you create start counting from 0. I know this is kind of the default for programming related things. However in this case it doesn't feel really intuitive to me. Mostly because I'm using these indices to move to a specific window.
You can let tmux know that you rather start numbering windows and panes from one instead of zero by putting the following in your ~/.tmux.conf file.
# ~/.tmux.conf
# Start numbering windows from index 1
set -g base-index 1
# Start numbering panes from index 1
setw -g pane-base-index 1