Simple tmux statusline generator with support for powerline symbols and vim/airline/lightline statusline integration
- colors from vim-airline/lightline.vim
- colors from vim's own statusline
- use vim/vim-airline/lightline.vim colors, so tmux and vim share the same statusline colortheme
- preloaded with stock themes and presets, which can be combined anyway you want
- configure tmux statusline using a simple hash, in case stock presets don't meet your needs
- create a snapshot .conf file which can be sourced by tmux, no need to open vim to set your tmux statusline
Use one of the vim_statusline_* themes (and optionally set in vimrc let g:tmuxline_powerline_separators = 0):
:Tmuxline vim_statusline_1
" or
:Tmuxline vim_statusline_2
" or
:Tmuxline vim_statusline_3
Just start vim inside of tmux. airline's colors will be applied to tmux's statusline
Alternatively, you can set it manually using airline_* themes:
:Tmuxline airline
" or
:Tmuxline airline_insert
" or
:Tmuxline airline_visual
If you set airline theme manually, make sure the airline-tmuxline extension is disabled, so it doesn't overwrite the theme:
let g:airline#extensions#tmuxline#enabled = 0
Use one of the lightline_* themes:
:Tmuxline lightline
" or
:Tmuxline lightline_insert
" or
:Tmuxline lightline_visual
Set a a colortheme and a preset, both arguments are optional
:Tmuxline [theme] [preset]
After running :Tmuxline, create a snapshot file which can be sourced by tmux.conf on startup
:TmuxlineSnapshot [file]
Source the created snapshot in tmux.conf
# in tmux.conf
source-file [file]
# alternatively, check file exists before sourcing it in tmux.conf
if-shell "test -f [file]" "source [file]"
Note that :Tmuxline and :TmuxlineSnapshot are available only when vim is inside a tmux session.
Set g:tmuxline_preset to a stock preset and run :Tmuxline
let g:tmuxline_preset = 'nightly_fox'
" or
let g:tmuxline_preset = 'full'
" or
let g:tmuxline_preset = 'tmux'
" other presets available in autoload/tmuxline/presets/*
Contents of the statusline are configured with a simple hash.
Left section is configured with a, b, c, right with x, y, z. cwin and win affect the current (active) window and the in-active windows respectively.
let g:tmuxline_preset = {
\'a' : '#S',
\'b' : '#W',
\'c' : '#H',
\'win' : '#I #W',
\'cwin' : '#I #W',
\'x' : '%a',
\'y' : '#W %R',
\'z' : '#H'}
tmux will replace #X and %X. Excerpts from tmux man page:
#H Hostname of local host
#h Hostname of local host without the domain name
#F Current window flag
#I Current window index
#S Session name
#W Current window name
#(shell-command) First line of the command's output
string will be passed through strftime(3) before being used.
If the values of the hash g:tmuxline_preset hold an array, a powerline separator will be placed.
let g:tmuxline_preset = {
\'a' : '#S',
\'win' : ['#I', '#W'],
\'cwin' : ['#I', '#W', '#F'],
\'y' : ['%R', '%a', '%Y'],
\'z' : '#H'}
tmux allows using any command in the statusline.
let g:tmuxline_preset = {
\'a' : '#S',
\'c' : ['#(whoami)', '#(uptime | cud -d " " -f 1,2,3)'],
\'win' : ['#I', '#W'],
\'cwin' : ['#I', '#W', '#F'],
\'x' : '#(date)',
\'y' : ['%R', '%a', '%Y'],
\'z' : '#H'}
Use let g:tmuxline_powerline_separators = 0 to disable using powerline symbols
To fine-tune the separators, use g:tmuxline_separators:
let g:tmuxline_separators = {
\ 'left' : '',
\ 'left_alt': '>',
\ 'right' : '',
\ 'right_alt' : '<',
\ 'space' : ' '}
Note that vim-airline has a tmuxline extenstion which by default sets airline's color theme onto tmuxline.
If you don't want airline colors in tmuxline, set let g:airline#extensions#tmuxline#enabled = 0 in vimrc.
Modifying g:tmuxline_theme (details below) makes sense only if the airline-tmuxline is not enabled.
Use g:tmuxline_theme to configure the theme. g:tmuxline_theme can hold either a string (stock theme) or a hash (custom theme).
let g:tmuxline_theme = 'icebert'
" or
let g:tmuxline_theme = 'zenburn'
" or
let g:tmuxline_theme = 'jellybeans'
" other themes available in autoload/tmuxline/themes/*
Alternatively, g:tmuxline_theme can be used to fine tune a custom theme:
let g:tmuxline_theme = {
\ 'a' : [ 236, 103 ],
\ 'b' : [ 253, 239 ],
\ 'c' : [ 244, 236 ],
\ 'x' : [ 244, 236 ],
\ 'y' : [ 253, 239 ],
\ 'z' : [ 236, 103 ]
\ 'win' : [ 103, 236 ],
\ 'cwin' : [ 236, 103 ],
\ 'bg' : [ 244, 236 ],
\ }
" values represent: [ FG, BG, ATTR ]
" FG ang BG are color codes
" ATTR (optional) is a comme-delimited string of one or more of bold, dim, underscore, etc. For details refer to 'message-attr attributes' in tmux man page
The plugin's files follow the standard layout for vim plugins.
- Pathogen
git clone https://github.com/edkolev/tmuxline.vim ~/.vim/bundle/tmuxline.vim - Vundle
Bundle 'edkolev/tmuxline.vim' - NeoBundle
NeoBundle 'edkolev/tmuxline.vim'
- Paul Rouget's desktop setup
- Bailey Ling's vim-airline
Vimscript wasn't my first choice of language for this plugin. Arguably, bash would have been better suited for this task. I chose vimscript because:
- its data scructures (arrays, hashes) are better than their bash counterparts (easier to write, to maintain). So maintaining your tmux statusline as a vim hash would be easier
- vim has (better) package managers
Somewhat-similar plugins:
- powerline is a great project. Still, my Raspberri Pi chokes while executing python every 2 seconds (I haven't tried powerline's daemon mode). I also find it a bit hard to personalize
- tmux-powerline doesn't focus on easy customization but on adding extra information (segments) in tmux (gmail, weather, earthquake warnings, etc)
MIT License. Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Evgeni Kolev.