tmux status color

Automatically colorize tmux' status bar differently for each host, so you can differentiate them at a glance.

Installation

With tmux Plugin Manager

Add this plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf:

set -g @plugin 'crazygolem/tmux-status-color'

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

Manually

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/crazygolem/tmux-status-color ~/clone/path

Add the following line to your .tmux.conf:

run-shell ~/clone/path/colorize.tmux

Reload the tmux environment with tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf.

Configuration

The string used to generate the color can be configured with @status_color_source. The default is equivalent to:

set -gF @status_color_source '#{host}'