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tmux 3: Productive Mouse-Free Development
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tmux 3: Productive Mouse-Free Development

by Brian P. Hogan
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
118 pages
3h 2m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Customizing the Status Line’s Content

The tmux status line can display nearly any information you want. You can use some predefined components or create your own by executing shell commands and pulling in the results.

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 14-Jun-24

On the left side, you 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, you have the host name of your computer followed by the date and time. Now, let’s customize the content of the status line.

Configuring Status Line Items

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