TPM does not install plugins on M1 Mac (Ventura)

[lightbluepoppy]

Description

I installed tmux via Homebrew and did git clone tpm but it does not let me install plugins.

Expected Behavior

~/.tmux/plugins                                                             
❯ ls
tpm tmux-sensible ...
❯

Actual Behavior

Plugins are not shown in ~/.tmux/plugins

TMUX environment reloaded.                 

Done, press ESCAPE to continue. 

~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts                                 
❯ ./install_plugins.sh
❯

~/.tmux/plugins                                                             
❯ ls
tpm
❯

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

.tmux.conf

# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect'
set -g @plugin 'dracula/tmux'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-prefix-highlight'
set -g @plugin 'christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator'

# https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/35h1g1/neovim_slow_to_respond_after_esc/
set -sg escape-time 0
set -g status-interval 0

# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'

Specifications

❯ neofetch
                    'c.          user 
                 ,xNMM.          ---------------------- 
               .OMMMMo           OS: macOS 13.2.1 22D68 arm64 
               OMMM0,            Host: Mac14,9 
     .;loddo:' loolloddol;.      Kernel: 22.3.0 
   cKMMMMMMMMMMNWMMMMMMMMMM0:    Uptime: 20 mins 
 .KMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    Packages: 73 (brew) 
 XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      Shell: zsh 5.8.1 
;MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       Resolution: 1147x745@2x 
:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       DE: Aqua 
.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      WM: Amethyst 
 kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    Terminal: kitty 
 .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMk   CPU: Apple M2 Pro 
  .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMK.   GPU: Apple M2 Pro 
    kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMd     Memory: 2538MiB / 32768MiB 
     ;KMMMMMMMWXXWMMMMMMMk.
       .cooc,.    .,coo:.                                
                                                         

[lightbluepoppy]

Everything resolved after renaming .tmux.conf to tmux.conf. I got an error that says "tmux.conf is missing" after double-clicking .tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/install_plugins.sh but not in a terminal. This must be a real issue.

[mok0]

I have the same problem on macOS 13.5 (Ventura), tmux simply seems to ignore plugins.

[gianu]

same issue on macOS 13.5 :(

My tmux configuration is in ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf and tpm is installed in ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

[gianu]

got it working after adding:

set-environment -g TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH "~/.tmux/plugins/"

to my .config/tmux/tmux.conf file.

[joshmedeski]

If you tmux file is located at ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf I highly recommend following these steps:

1. Delete the ~/.tmux directory entirely. NOTE: make sure to backup any custom config you may have in there.
2. Clone tpm to ~/.config/tmux/plugins/tpm NOTE: you may have to mkdir plugins before running the clone command

   git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.config/tmux/plugins/tpm

3. Rerun install commands

I can update the README to reflect that, but my buddy ran into this problem too and this fixed it for him.

[jsvensson]

If you tmux file is located at ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf I highly recommend following these steps:

I've just started rewriting a bunch of dotfiles from scratch and ran into this issue. Above comment worked just fine. 👍🏻

[giograno]

I have a related issue in macOS Sonoma.
My configuration is in ~/.tmux.conf and my TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH is ~/.tmux/plugins/.

When I try to install a plugin, it ends up in ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux/ and both install and update does not seem to have an effect. I get something like:

Already installed "tmux"
Already installed "tpm"

TMUX environment reloaded.

[GuiMarthe]

Had this issue for a while, and for installations through nix one needs to add ben nix-profile bin directory like this:

set-environment -g PATH "/Users/<USERNAME>/.nix-profile/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/bin:/usr/bin"

[Rick-Phoenix]

I also had this issue while migrating from ~/.tmux.conf to ~/.config/tmux/* and it was caused by the file being named .tmux.conf. I changed it to tmux.conf (without the dot) and it was solved.

And by the way if you set it up like this, tpm will automatically install plugins in ~/.config/tmux.
If you want the plugins to be located in ~/.local/share instead, you have to do this:

# At the very top of your tmux.conf file
set-environment -gF TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH '#{HOME}/.local/share/tmux/plugins/'

if 'test ! -d "${TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH}/tpm"' {
  run 'mkdir -p "${TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH}"'
  run 'git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm "${TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH}/tpm"'
  run '${TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH}/tpm/bin/install_plugins'
}

# At the very bottom
run '${TMUX_PLUGIN_MANAGER_PATH}/tpm/tpm'

[drod3763]

I discovered my issue was due to using a git-credential-helper. Since the git commands are piped into /dev/null it wasn't obvious to me. So check install_plugins.sh and remove that part from the git command to see if it was working.