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Getting Started with tmux
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Getting Started with tmux

by Victor Quinn
September 2014
Beginner
148 pages
3h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Status bar revisited

Last time we touched the status bar, we altered its colors, but we did not do anything to change its content. tmux allows us to change a lot of different aspects of the content of the status bar. We won't have an in-depth look at every possible configuration, but will explain the concept and show one example.

So, the status bar has three chunks basically:

  • status-left: This represents the stuff on the status bar on the left-hand side, including the current session
  • List of open windows: This appears in the middle by default
  • status-right: This represents the stuff on the status bar on the right-hand side, including the current date

Recall our status bar, which appears as shown in the following screenshot:

By default, status-left shows ...

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ISBN: 9781783985166