workings-book/entries/2015-01-25.md

Sunday, January 25, 2015

background colors for tmux

I'm logged into too many machines. I make an effort to have prompt colors differ between hosts, but tmux is the same everywhere.

You can do this sort of thing:

brennen@exuberance 11:54:43 /home/brennen/code $  cat ~/.tmux.conf 
# Set window notifications
setw -g monitor-activity on
set -g visual-activity on
set -g status-bg blue
set -g status-fg white

...where status-bg and status-fg are colors for the status bar.

It seems like there may be ways to conditionalize this, but at this point I'm tempted to just pull some simple templating system into my [dotfile stuff][bpb-kit] and generate a subset of config files on a per-host basis.