Display a dynamic menu of tmux sessions in the Openbox window manager.
Setup
Add the following to your Openbox menu configuration file,
~/.config/openbox/menu.xml:
<menu id="tmux-sessions" label="tmux sessions" execute="~/path/openbox-tmux-pipe-menu.py" />
Reload Openbox configuration:
openbox --reconfigure
Usage
Selecting a session from the menu reattaches it in a new terminal window.
Optional advanced configuration
By default, the command used to reattach a session is tmux attach -d -t $SESSION_NAME. The command is run using urxvt or xterm.
This can be customized by creating a configuration file,
~/.config/openbox/tmux.ini, with a pipe-menu section containing an
attach-command-template value. A %s sequence in the command template
will be replaced with selected session name.
Example:
[pipe-menu]
attach-command-template = urxvt -T tmux-reattach -e tmux attach -d -t %s
This will reattach the selected session using a new urxvt window with the title set to tmux-reattach. The title can then be used to further customize the urxvt window with Openbox per-app settings.