I recently started to use tmux and like it much, but its green bottom bar is a bit distracting, is there a way to change its color? or a way to hide it?
Answers:
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Method 1
There are many options given in the manual. (See the OPTIONS section.)
Create an RC file: ~/.tmux.conf. The contents below enables UTF-8, sets the right TERM type, and draws the status bar with a black background and white foreground.
set status-utf8 on set utf8 on set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" set -g status-bg black set -g status-fg white
In FreeBSD 10.1, I have had to add -g to the UTF directives.
set -g status-utf8 on set -g utf8 on
On UTF-8, many SSH clients require one to explicitly define a character set to use. For example, in Putty, select Window -> Translation -> Remote character set: UTF-8 and select Use Unicode line drawing code points.
And to turn off the status bar…
set -g status off
On colors from the manual…
message-bg colour
Set status line message background colour, where colour is one of:
black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, colour0 to
colour255 from the 256-colour palette, or default.
So, to list the available colors, first create a script, maybe colors.sh:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
for i in {0..255} ; do
printf "x1b[38;5;${i}mcolour${i}n"
done
Next, execute the script, piping to less:
colors.sh | less -r
This produces a list of colors, 1-255, in this format:
colour1 [...] colour255
Pick a color from the list, perhaps colour240, a shade of grey. In ~/.tmux.conf, use this value to set the desired color:
set -g status-bg colour240
In Fedora 17, 256-color terminals are not enabled by default. The official method used to enable 256-color terminals by default is given on the Fedora Project Wiki. Follow that guide, or, as a per-user solution, create an alias for tmux to force 256-color support with the “-2” switch.
alias tmux="tmux -2"
Then start tmux to test it.
Note that, as @ILMostro_7 points out, it would not be correct to set the TERM type for tmux from, for example, ~/.bashrc. Each tmux pane emulates a terminal – not the same thing as an xterm. The emulation in tmux needs to match screen, a different terminal description, to behave properly; but, the real terminal does not need to do so. It’s description is xterm-256color.
Method 2
For me it’s C-b, :set status-style "bg=red".
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