Tmux is a very powerful terminal tool. I was once a user of Screen, but after giving Tmux a try. There is no going back…, at least, after changing its key binding to Screen and Vim alike. It is, though, powerful enough, folks just don’t content with what we have now. So here comes one of my favo plugins - Tmux-Powerline.

one big problem - Special Character

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sudo apt-get install python-fontforge             # install needed package
cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/  # my os is Ubuntu 12.04
PATH_TO_FONTFORGE UbuntuMono-R.ttf                # no more garbled character