Tmux ColorTag Plugin/Theme

Also works for powerline haters with default setting.

What's This?

This is a very succinct plugin that colors the window tags according to their names. The color can even automatically change when your shell runs different programs! It also serves as a minimal theme that is friendly to any people who just want something simple and works.

Features

• Automically color the window tabs by their name hash
• Manual control of coloring in tmux (also saved)
• Support Powerline symbols

TLDR; I just want it

• Execute the following line in your shell:

  curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Determinant/tmux-colortag/master/bootstrap.sh | bash
  

• Run tmux, and then hit Ctrl+b, release, then I so everything should be ready.

Installation

• Make sure you have tmux plugin manager installed: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm

• Add it to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf:

  set -g @plugin 'Determinant/tmux-colortag'
  

• Hit prefix + I to fetch the plugin and source it.

• Optional:

  • To immediately play with the main feature, try prefix (Ctrl+b by default) + , and change the window name.
  • NOTE: tmux won't change the window name automatically once you set it manually. To test the auto-changing color, just run any command in your new window.

Help

Press prefix, then C, type help and press enter.

Customization

• To manually set the color of the active window tag, press prefix + C and:
  • color-idx <0-255 color code> to manually set the color for the window index
  • color-name <0-255 color code> to manually set the color for the name
  • clear-idx clears the preivous color of the index
  • clear-name clears the preivous color of the name
  • clear-all use auto-coloring for all window tags

• If you would like to use Powerline symbols like shown in the demo, add the following line to the top of your .tmux.conf to enable them:

  TMUX_COLORTAG_USE_POWERLINE=yes
  # uncomment the following line to have rounded arrows
  # TMUX_COLORTAG_ROUNDED_POWERLINE=yes
  

• To change the prompt key (prefix + C), specify your key in TMUX_COLORTAG_KEY.

• TIP: If you love the status bar on the top (instead of at the bottom by default in tmux), add set-option -g status-position top to your config file

• Other tweakable variables:

  • TMUX_COLORTAG_TAG_BOLD: specify yes if you want bold tag text
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_TAG_FOCUS_UNDERLINE: specify yes if you want underlined text for the active tag
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_TAG_TEXT_COLOR
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_TAG_FOCUS_TEXT_COLOR
  • TMUX_ARROW_SYMBOL_L1
  • TMUX_ARROW_SYMBOL_L2
  • TMUX_ARROW_SYMBOL_R1
  • TMUX_ARROW_SYMBOL_R2
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_SET_INTERVAL: for the best experience, this plugin assumes a short status update interval. To change it back, make it no or directly override the setting in your tmux config file.
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_TAG_ONLY: if you only want to color the tags (without changing other styles such as borders), make it yes.
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_IDX_SEP: controls the separator between the window index and name.
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_SEP_LEFT_PADDING: padding string before the separator
  • TMUX_COLORTAG_SEP_RIGHT_PADDING: padding string after the separator
  • Theme colors (value example: "colour123")
    • colortag_bg0
    • colortag_bg1
    • colortag_white0: font color of the active tag
    • colortag_white1: color of the active pane border
    • colortag_lightgray
    • colortag_darkgray

Update to the Latest Version

• Hit prefix + U and choose this plugin.