tmux2k

Make tmux powerful and pretty 🥊💅

tmux2k is a highly customizable framework designed to enhance your tmux status bar, providing you with a sleek and informative interface for your terminal sessions.

✨ Features

• Enhanced Aesthetics: Prettify your tmux setup with a stylish and modern status bar.
• Informative Display: Gain access to all the essential information you need right on your status bar, including system stats, git branch, weather updates, and more.
• Plugin Ecosystem: Comes with a wide array of plugins to tailor your status bar to your specific needs, covering everything from system monitoring to version control integration.
• Ease of Customization: Customize and extend tmux2k effortlessly, thanks to its intuitive configuration options and flexible architecture.
• Dynamic Updates: Enjoy real-time updates and dynamic content rendering for a seamless and responsive user experience.

🎨 Available Themes:

• default
• default icons
• catppuccin
• catppuccin icons
• gruvbox
• gruvbox icons
• monokai
• monokai icons
• onedark
• onedark icons
• duo
• duo icons
• duo blue
• default no powerline

To use themes:

# use a theme
set -g @tmux2k-theme 'onedark'

# to show icons only
set -g @tmux2k-icons-only true

# to customize duo bg and fg
set -g @tmux2k-duo-fg "#1688f0" # this will get you duo blue shown above
set -g @tmux2k-duo-bg "#000000" # this will set the bg for duo theme

# to set powerline symbols
set -g @tmux2k-right-sep  # alternate right status bar sep
set -g @tmux2k-win-right-sep  # alternate window right sep

# to not show powerline
set -g @tmux2k-show-powerline false

# set start icon, accpets: `session`, 'window`, or any string
set -g @tmux2k-start-icon ""

🖌️ Customize Theme Colors

Available Colors:

• text: Default text color. Default: #282a36
• bg_main: Background color for main sections. Default: #15152a
• bg_alt: Background color for alternate sections. Default: #45455a
• black: Black color. Default: #0a0a0f
• white: White color. Default: #d5d5da
• red: Red color. Default: #ff001f
• light_red: Light red color. Default: #ff0055
• green: Green color. Default: #3dd50a
• light_green: Light green color. Default: #ccffcc
• blue: Blue color. Default: #1688f0
• light_blue: Light blue color. Default: #11dddd
• yellow: Yellow color. Default: #ffb86c
• light_yellow: Light yellow color. Default: #ffd21a
• purple: Purple color. Default: #bf58ff
• light_purple: Light purple color. Default: #ff65c6

To customize theme colors:

set -g @tmux2k-text '#cdcdcd' # change text to white
set -g @tmux2k-bg-main '#ffffff' # change bg to white
set -g @tmux2k-yellow '#f8c800' # change yellow color

You may have to restart tmux for some changes to reflect

🧩 Available Plugins

• battery: Show battery stats and percentage
• git: Show Git branch and status information
• cpu: Show CPU usage information
• cwd: Show current working directory
• ram: Show RAM usage information
• network: Show network status and statistics
• ping: Show network ping statistics
• time: Show current time and date
• window: tmux window list

To customize plugins, I'll highly recommend checking out their respective scripts in the scripts folder.

Here's some example configurations:

# set the left and right plugin sections
set -g @tmux2k-left-plugins "git cpu ram"
set -g @tmux2k-right-plugins "battery network time"

# to set window list alignment (absolute-centre by default)
set -g @tmux2k-window-list-alignment 'left'

# to customize plugin colors
set -g @tmux2k-[plugin-name]-colors "[background] [foreground]"
set -g @tmux2k-cpu-colors "red black" # set cpu plugin bg to red, fg to black

# to enable compact window list size
set -g @tmux2k-compact-windows true

# change refresh rate
set -g @tmux2k-refresh-rate 5

# weather scale
set -g @tmux2k-show-fahrenheit false

# 24 hour time
set -g @tmux2k-military-time true

# network interface to watch
set -g @tmux2k-network-name "wlo1"

🪆 Add New Plugins

To add a new plugin, add a script to the scripts folder that prints something to the console.

The plugin name and script file name must match e.g: plugin named foo should have a file called scripts/foo.sh

⚡ Setup

⚙️ Requirements

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• You have installed the latest version of tmux.
• bash 5.2 or newer, mac users can install it using brew install bash
• tpm for managing tmux plugins.
• A patched nerd font for powerline and glyphs support.

💻 Installation

If you are a tpm user, you can install the theme and keep up to date by adding the following to your .tmux.conf file:

set -g @plugin '2kabhishek/tmux2k'

• Run tmux
• Use the tpm install command: prefix + I (default prefix is ctrl+b)

You can also directly clone the repo to your ~/.tmux/plugins/ folder.

🏗️ What's Next

• You tell me!

🧑‍💻 Behind The Code

🌈 Inspiration

I came across dracula/tmux sometime back and I wanted to create a more customizable and easy to expand solution.

💡 Challenges/Learnings

• Learned a lot about the tmux and tpm ecosystem.
• Did some fancy shell scripting.

What's next

To-Do

You tell me!

🧰 Tooling

• dots2k — Dev Environment
• nvim2k — Personalized Editor
• sway2k — Desktop Environment
• qute2k — Personalized Browser

🔍 More Info

• tmux-tea — Simple and powerful tmux session manager
• tmux-tilit — Turns tmux into a terminal window manager

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