Any way to give the winbar a darker color?

[ronandalton]

Hi, I was wondering if there's some way to give the winbar a darker shade to differentiate it from the other text in the window.

I understand that there is a workaround in the code for an issue (#118) that disables the winbar background color. However, other plugins (eg. fgheng/winbar.nvim) seem to be able to use the proper background color and have colored icons/text, so I'm not entirely sure what the issue is. Is it to do with incorrect colors when clicking in the navbar and as such highlighting a component?

Thank you.

[Bekaboo]

Good question, there is an issue in the neovim repo that better describes the problem: neovim/neovim#26037. I am also interested in if there is any way to have a proper winbar background color that is not unnecessarily complex.

However, other plugins (eg. fgheng/winbar.nvim) seem to be able to use the proper background color and have colored icons/text, so I'm not entirely sure what the issue is

I tried to setup winbar.nvim but it does not even start and set the winbar for me. Have you successfully set it up? If so, could you share you config and a screenshot of how it renders a winbar with background and colorful components?

[ronandalton]

Thanks for your response.

Here is the config I use for winbar.nvim:

return {
  'fgheng/winbar.nvim',
  dependencies = {
    {
      'ColinKennedy/nvim-gps', -- fork of SmiteshP/nvim-gps (which is archived) with some bug fixes
      dependencies = {
        'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter',
      },
      opts = {},
    },
  },
  opts = {
    enabled = true,
  },
}

Screenshot:

Actually, on taking a closer look at the colors it looks like the winbar color is only applied to the non-text area with that plugin, so not quite what I wanted.

[Bekaboo]

Since nvim is merging neovim/neovim#29976, there is no need to combine the highlight groups manually in this plugin -- nvim should handle them properly after merging the patch.

[ronandalton]

Nice. I assume at some point in the future this will be possible then once that is merged.

Thanks.