Information on FreeBSD in tmux

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Amooti73
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Information on FreeBSD in tmux

Post by Amooti73 »

In GhostBSD every time I open a new pane in tmux some random information about a FreeBSD command or feature is displayed above the command prompt. I find this helpful. Although I have GhostBSD installed on my laptop, I also recently installed FreeBSD-RELEASE 14.0 on my desktop. However, the tmux I installed does not provide those "helpful hints". Is there something I can do or install to so that the tmux in FreeBSD will also provide those items of information as in GhostBSD?
wb7odyfred
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Re: Information on FreeBSD in tmux

Post by wb7odyfred »

It is similar to Message of the Day file /etc/motd. I am looking for specific shell script or data to answer your question from using Google-Fu on "freebsd /etc/motd"
https://abowhill.github.io/config-tmux-freebsd.html Blog about configuring tmux , look at editing ~/.tmux.conf file
If you don't get that, continue on with configuration, and run it again. The next configuration we need to do is for the ~/.tmux.conf :
maybe add a display "motd" line into file ~/.tmux.conf ??

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?motd FreeBSD man page on motd
https://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/turn-of ... ogin-file/ Hushlogin to turn of MOTD display when logging in

cat /etc/motd

TMUX
https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read Book explaining tmux
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/tmux ... ion.90843/ A FreeBSD forum post with lots of good information.
https://www.benhup.com/freebsd/tmux-cheat-sheet/ Tmux cheat sheet
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?que ... +and+Ports FreeBSD 14.0 Man page
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