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This is a hackable set of scripts for making a nice and dynamic tmux statusbar consisting of segments. This is much like Lokaltog/vim-powerline but for tmux.
The following segments exists for now:
- LAN & WAN IP addresses.
- Now Playing for MPD, Spotify (GNU/Linux native or wine, OS X), iTunes (OS X), Rhythmbox, Banshee, MOC, Audacious, Rdio (OS X), cmus, Pithos and Last.fm (last scrobbled track).
- New mail count for GMail, Maildir, mbox, mailcheck, and Apple Mail.
- GNU/Linux and Macintosh OS X battery status (uses richo/dotfiles/bin/battery).
- Weather in Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin using Yahoo Weather.
- System load, cpu usage and uptime.
- Git, SVN and Mercurial branch in CWD.
- Date and time.
- Hostname.
- tmux info.
- CWD in pane.
- Current X keyboard layout.
- Network download/upload speed.
- Earthquake warnings.
Full screenshot
left-status
Current tmux session, window and pane, hostname and LAN & WAN IP address.
right-status
New mails, now playing, average load, weather, date and time.
Now I've read my inbox so the mail segment disappears!
After pausing the music there's no need for showing NP anymore. Also the weather has become much nicer!
Remaining battery.
This project is accepting contributions, but currently active development on new features are paused. If you look for a more active project, check out Lokaltog/powerline. However this project is still functional and can serve as a lightweight alternative for those who does not want large dependencies (Lokaltog/powerline requires a Python setup on the system), as this is implemented in bash.
Requirements for the lib to work are:
- Recent tmux version
bash --version
>= 3.2 (Does not have to be your default shell.)- A patched font. Follow instructions at Powerline Installation or download a new one. However you can use other substitute symbols as well; see
config.sh
.
Requirements for some segments. You only need to fulfill the requirements for those segments you want to use.
wan_ip.sh
,now_playing.sh
(last.fm),weather_yahoo.sh
: curl, bcnow_playing.sh
(mpd) : libmpdclientxkb_layout.sh
: X11, XKBmailcount.sh
(gmail): wget, (mailcheck): mailcheck.ifstat.sh
: ifstat (there is a simpler segment not using ifstat but samples /sys/class/net)tmux_mem_cpu_load.sh
: tmux-mem-cpu-loadrainbarf.sh
: rainbarfweather.sh
: GNUgrep
with Perl regexp enabled (FreeBSD specific),jq
for yrno weather API.
The grep
tool is outdated on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion so you might have to upgrade it.
brew install grep
Preinstalled grep
in FreeBSD doesn't support Perl regexp. Solution is rather simple -- you need to use textproc/gnugrep
port instead. You also need to make sure, that it has support for PCRE and is compiled with --enable-perl-regexp
flag.
Start with checking out the repository with:
cd ~/some/path/
git clone https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline.git
Now edit your ~/.tmux.conf
to use the scripts:
set-option -g status on
set-option -g status-interval 2
set-option -g status-justify "centre"
set-option -g status-left-length 60
set-option -g status-right-length 90
set-option -g status-left "#(~/path/to/tmux-powerline/powerline.sh left)"
set-option -g status-right "#(~/path/to/tmux-powerline/powerline.sh right)"
set-hook -g session-created 'run-shell "~/path/to/tmux-powerline/powerline.sh init"' # prettifies the window-status segments
Set the maximum lengths to something that suits your configuration of segments and size of terminal (the maximum segments length will be handled better in the future).
The window-status configuration is run only when a session is created, so re-running init is required to refresh the window status formats.
You can toggle the visibility of the statusbars by adding the following lines:
bind C-[ run '~/path/to/tmux-powerline/mute_powerline.sh left' # Mute left statusbar.
bind C-] run '~/path/to/tmux-powerline/mute_powerline.sh right' # Mute right statusbar.
Some segments e.g. cwd and cvs_branch needs to find the current working directory of the active pane. To achieve this we let tmux save the path each time the shell prompt is displayed. Put the line below in your ~/.bashrc
or where you define you PS1 variable. zsh users can put it in e.g. ~/.zshrc
and may change PS1
to PROMPT
(but that's not necessary).
PS1="$PS1"'$([ -n "$TMUX" ] && tmux setenv TMUXPWD_$(tmux display -p "#D" | tr -d %) "$PWD")'
If the active shell is Fish, PS1 is not being set normally. Instead, it has a fish_prompt
function that is being called when prompt rendering is required. This means that one can append the following command at the end of the function in fish_prompt.fish
file:
if set -q TMUX; tmux setenv TMUXPWD_(tmux display -p "#D" | tr -d '%') $PWD; end
If you have a recent version of tmux (โฅ 2.1), there is no need to redefine the PS1 variable since tmux can be called directly to query the working directory of the active pane.
The default segments that are shown are defined in themes/default.sh
. You will probably want to change those to fit your needs. To do so you can edit that file directly but preferable, for easier updating of the repo, you can make a copy and edit that one (or see how to use custom themes directory below). A palette of colors that can be used can be obtained by running the script color_palette.sh
.
cp themes/default.sh themes/mytheme.sh
$EDITOR themes/mytheme.sh
Now generate a default configuration file by doing
./generate_rc.sh
mv ~/.tmux-powerlinerc.default ~/.tmux-powerlinerc # or to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmux-powerline/config.sh
$EDITOR ~/.tmux-powerlinerc
and change theme to use and values for segments you want to use. If you want to keep the repo checkout clean you can set custom segment and theme paths in the general section and then store your files outside the repo.
Some segments might not work on your system for various reasons such as missing programs or different versions not having the same options. To find out which segment is not working it may help to enable the debug setting in ~/.tmux-powerlinerc
. However this may not be enough to determine the error so you can inspect all executed bash commands (will be a long output) by doing
bash -x powerline.sh (left|right)
To debug smaller portions of code, say if you think the problem lies in a specific segment, insert these lines at the top and bottom of the relevant code portions e.g. inside a function:
set -x
exec 2>/tmp/tmux-powerline.log
<code to debug>
set +x
and then inspect the outputs like
less /tmp/tmux-powerline.log
tail -f /tmp/tmux-powerline.log # or follow output like this.
If you can not solve the problems you can post an issue and be sure to include relevant information about your system and script output (from bash -x) and/or screenshots if needed. Be sure to search in the resolved issues section for similar problems you're experiencing before posting.
The issue is probably that the update of the current directory in the active pane is not updated correctly. Make sure that your PS1 or PROMPT variable actually contains the line from the installation step above by simply inspecting the output of echo $PS1
. You might have placed the PS1 line in you shell configuration such that it is overwritten later. The simplest solution is to put it at the very end to make sure that nothing overwrites it. See issue #52.
You have edited ~/.tmux.conf
but no powerline is displayed. This might be because tmux is not aware of the changes so you have to restart your tmux session or reloaded that file by typing this on the command line (or in tmux command mode with prefix :
)
tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
If your tmux looks like this then you may have to in iTerm uncheck [Unicode East Asian Ambiguous characters are wide] in Preferences -> Settings -> Advanced.
This project can only gain positively from contributions. Fork today and make your own enhancements and segments to share back! If you'd like, add your name and E-mail to AUTHORS before making a pull request so you can get some credit for your work :-)
If you want to (of course you do!) send a pull request for a cool segment you written make sure that it follows the style of existing segments, unless you have good reason for it. Each segment resides in the segments/
directory with a descriptive and simple name. A segment must have at least one function and that is run_segment
which is like the main function that is called from the tmux-powerline lib. What ever text is echoed out from this function to stdout is the text displayed in the tmux statusbar. If the segment at a certain point does not have anything to show, simply don't echo anything out and the segment will be hidden. A successful execution of the run_segment
function should return an exit code of 0. If the segment failed to execute in a fatal way return a non-zero exit code so the user can pick up the error and fix it when debug mode is on (e.g. missing program that is needed for the segment).
Usage of helper function to organize the work of a segment is encourage and should be named in the format __helper_func
. If a segment has settings it should have a function generate_rc
which outputs default values of all settings and a short explanation of the setting and its values. Study e.g. segments/now_playing.sh
to see how it is done. A segment having settings should typically call a helper function __process_settings
as the first statement in run_segment
that sets default values to the settings that has not been set by the user.
Also, don't use bash4 features as requiring bash4 complicates installation for OS X user quite a bit. Use tabs for indentation (discussion),