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.