Customizing the Status Line’s Content
The tmux status line can display nearly any information we want. We can use some predefined components or create our own by executing shell commands.
The status line consists of three components: a left panel, the window list, and a right panel. By default, it looks like this:
| | [development] 0:bash* "example.local" 13:37 31-Oct-16 |
On the left side, we have the name of the tmux session followed by the list of windows. The list of windows shows the numerical index of the current window and its name. On the right side, we have the hostname of our server followed by the date and time. Let’s customize the content of our status line.
Configuring Status Line Items
You can change the content in the left or right ...
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