Status bar not being updated

[Oliveiras]

No matter what I write on tmux_conf_theme_status_left and tmux_conf_theme_status_right, it's ignored.

Even if I write a simple value, without variables or unicode chars, like below, it's still ignored.

tmux_conf_theme_status_left="hi "
tmux_conf_theme_status_right=" bye"

I'm using Windows 10 + WSL2 + Ubuntu + Zsh. Here's the output of some commands, showing the versions.

➜  ~ uname -a
Linux NADF377 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Apr 2 22:23:49 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
➜  ~ locale
LANG=C.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="C.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="C.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
➜  ~ zsh --version
zsh 5.8 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)
➜  ~ tmux -V
tmux 3.0a

What else should I look for?

[gpakosz]

Hello @Oliveiras 👋

Please double check installation steps.

Please also double check how you're launching tmux. Typically Oh my tmux! won't work if you launch tmux with the -f option to specify a configuration file location

[Oliveiras]

Hello @gpakosz ,

I've double checked and didn't found any unmet requirement. Here's what I've checked:

• tmux version >= 2.3 OK, mine is 3.0a
• awk, perl and sed OK
• $TERM outside of tmux OK, mine is set to xterm-256color
• Installations steps OK and everything else is working
• (from the Troubleshooting) version of glib vs version of glibc OK, glib version is 2.64 and glibc version is 2.31, checked with following commands:

  $ sudo apt install libglib2.0-0
  ...
  libglib2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.4).

  $ ldd --version ldd
  ldd (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9.2) 2.31
  ...

• configure LC_CTYPE to use an UTF-8 locale OK, it was "C.UTF-8", but I set LANG, LC_ALL (and consequently LC_TYPE) to "en_US.UTF-8".
• (from your answer) Launching tmux without -f option OK, I'm starting it from my home folder using just tmux

Other than that, I'm using Windows Terminal, have installed and configured to use "Source Code Pro for Powerline" font. It's seems working.

Am I missing somethig? What else can I look for?

Thanks!

[gpakosz]

If reloading the tmux configuration with <prefix> + r doesn't make the following changes materialize

tmux_conf_theme_status_left="hi "
tmux_conf_theme_status_right=" bye"

Then it means tmux didn't load ~/.tmux.conf in the first place: ~/.tmux.conf should be a symlink to ~/.tmux/.tmux.conf.

Can you please paste the output of

$ head -4 ~/.tmux.conf

?

[gpakosz]

You can also look for /etc/tmux.conf or /usr/local/etc/tmux.conf files. If they exist, tmux won't load ~/.tmux.conf

[Oliveiras]

Here is the output of that command and the check to see if those other files exists:

➜  ~ head -4 ~/.tmux.conf
# : << EOF
# https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux
# (‑●‑●)> dual licensed under the WTFPL v2 license and the MIT license,
#         without any warranty.
➜  ~ ls -lh ~/.tmux.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alex alex 16 Dec 27 11:58 /home/alex/.tmux.conf -> .tmux/.tmux.conf
➜  ~ ls -lh /etc/tmux.conf
ls: cannot access '/etc/tmux.conf': No such file or directory
➜  ~ ls -lh /usr/local/etc/tmux.conf
ls: cannot access '/usr/local/etc/tmux.conf': No such file or directory

Other than that, I know the file is being loaded because if I change the color (for example) in the .tmux.conf.local, it does get applied.

[Oliveiras]

I finally found the problem, I tried to install a theme plugin (gruvbox) and it interacted badly with oh my tmux. I uninstalled it and the status bar is now working fine. Thanks for your time and sorry for not remembering mentioning that part.