when I install this configuration, my tmux looks different than the one in the videos

[maneater2]

my tmux only has blue, but in the video there is red, yellow and white and other colors. Is there something I should enable or is it not meant to be like that on default?

[gpakosz]

Hello @allthelightwe

• What's your OS
• What tmux version are you running
• What's the value of TERM outside of tmux

Also please share a screenshot

[maneater2]

My OS is OpenBSD 7.3-Release tmux tells me the version is "tmux openbsd-7.3" the TERM value is xterm-256color here's a screenshot:

[maneater2]

although when I try it on Arch Linux it works...

[gpakosz]

tmux reads configuration files in the following order

• /usr/local/etc/tmux.conf
• ~/.tmux.conf
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmux/tmux.conf
• ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf

It doesn't stop at the first one it finds. Please have a look if you don't have configuration files laying around that would set status-left and status-right.

[maneater2]

I only have a configuration in ~/

[gpakosz]

What's the output of the following command please?

$ env | grep TMUX

[gpakosz]

I didn't reproduce with an OpenBSD 7.3 Vagrant box

$ vagrant init fnichol/openbsd-7.3
$ vagrant ssh
$ su -
$ pkg_add git
$ exit
$ git clone https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux
$ ln -s .tmux/.tmux.conf
$ cp .tmux/.tmux.conf.local .
$ tmux

[maneater2]

What's the output of the following command please?

$ env | grep TMUX

sorry for the late reply, the output of the command is: TMUX_CONF=/home/light/.tmux.conf TMUX=/tmp/tmux-1000/default,9689,0 TMUX_SOCKET=/tmp/tmux-1000/default TMUX_PROGRAM=tmux TMUX_PANE=%1 TMUX_CONF_LOCAL=/home/USER/.tmux.conf.local

[gpakosz]

Is tmux in your path?

[gpakosz]

@allthelightwe

Can you please clone and install again? There was an issue with GitHub picking the wrong branch as the default branch

[gpakosz]

Hello @maneater2 👋

Are you still facing this issue?

[maneater2]

yes

[maneater2]

could it be a issue with tmux not associating .tmux.local.conf with itself?

[gpakosz]

could it be a issue with tmux not associating .tmux.local.conf with itself?

I don't think so

As I said I didn't reproduce in an OpenBSD 7.3 Vagrant box. Are you still using this version of OpenBSD?

[maneater2]

no, I'm using 7.4-current

[mayersj1]

I'm seeing the same thing here on NixOS 23.11.

If I include a theme plugin, it sets up the status bar just fine.

Just using the default settings in the .tmux.conf.localc file, I get the same behavior as shown in the screenshot above

Just another note. If I set 'tmux_conf_theme' to 'disabled' I get the standard default green tmux status bar, so the theming is making an effect somewhere in the loading of everything.

The same .tmux.conf.local works just fine on my other three machines that are running MacOS in iTerm.

[gpakosz]

Hello @maneater2,

As I said, I couldn't reproduce with

$ vagrant init generic-x64/openbsd7
$ vagrant ssh
$ uname -a
OpenBSD openbsd7.localdomain 7.4 GENERIC.MP#1397 amd64
$ sudo -i
$ pkg_add git
$ exit
$ git clone https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux
$ ln -s .tmux/.tmux.conf
$ cp .tmux/.tmux.conf.local .
$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
$ tmux

@mayersj1 I believe you're hitting #712 which I just fixed.

[mayersj1]

@gpakosz You are correct. I just pulled the latest and the status bar is working again now.