Support for custom background colors

[ricvillagrana]

I am facing a problem with background color and my font color, I would need to edit plugin colors to be easy to read. I know I can set the color to {battery_status_fg} but, It would be cool, add your custom colors 😎

[rux616]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're wanting to make sure the foreground color is still readable where you have the background color representing the battery status. There are two ways I can think of to do that.

Method 1

The first way is to manually specify a foreground color in your status line definition. Taking an approximation of the status line you have,

'#{battery_status_bg} Batt: #{battery_icon}#{battery_percentage} #{battery_remain} | (...)'

can be changed to something like

'#{battery_status_bg}#[fg=colour0] Batt: #{battery_icon}#{battery_percentage} #{battery_remain} | (...)'

The drawback of this method is that you're stuck trying to defining a single foreground color that works with all battery status colors.

Method 2

Alternatively, you can specify whatever foreground you want right in the set -g @batt_color_... declarations in your .tmux.conf file, like so:

set -g @batt_color_full_charge '#[bg=green,fg=black]'
set -g @batt_color_high_charge '#[bg=yellow,fg=black]'
set -g @batt_color_medium_charge '#[bg=colour208,fg=black]'
set -g @batt_color_low_charge '#[bg=red,fg=white]'
set -g @batt_color_charging '#[bg=green,fg=black]'

then change your status line to

'#{battery_status_bg} Batt: #{battery_icon}#{battery_percentage} #{battery_remain} #[bg=black,fg=green]| (...)'

to reset the colors after the battery section in the status line.

[ricvillagrana]

Yes, this is what I was looking for. Thank you!