My .tmux.conf Borrowed heavily from http://www.drbunsen.org/the-text-triumvirate/

gistfile1.txt

set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

set -g status-left-length 52
set -g status-right-length 451
set -g status-fg white
set -g status-bg colour234
set -g window-status-activity-attr bold
set -g pane-border-fg colour245
set -g pane-active-border-fg colour39
set -g message-fg colour16
set -g message-bg colour221
set -g message-attr bold
set -g status-left '#[fg=colour235,bg=colour252,bold] ❐ #S#[fg=colour252,bg=colour238,nobold]<U+2B80>#[fg=colour245,bg=colour238,bold] #(whoami) #[fg=colour238,bg=colour234,nobold]<U+2B80>'
set -g window-status-format "#[fg=white,bg=colour234] #I #W "
set -g window-status-current-format "#[fg=colour234,bg=colour39]<U+2B80>#[fg=colour25,bg=colour39,noreverse,bold] #I <U+2B81> #W#[fg=colour39,bg=colour234,nobold]<U+2B80>"

# remap prefix to Control + a
set -g prefix C-a
unbind C-b
bind C-a send-prefix

# force a reload of the config file
unbind r
bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf

# quick pane cycling
unbind ^A
bind ^A select-pane -t :.+