Enables displaying battery percentage and status icon in tmux status-right.
In order to read the battery status, this plugin depends on having one of the following applications installed:
In a normal situation, one of the above should be installed on your system by default and thus it should not be necessary to specifically install one of them. That being said, the acpi
utility is currently recommended for use over upower
where possible due to ongoing CPU usage issues.
Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf
:
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-battery'
Hit <prefix> + I
to fetch the plugin and source it.
If format strings are added to status-right
, they should now be visible.
Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-battery ~/clone/path
Add this line to the bottom of .tmux.conf
:
run-shell ~/clone/path/battery.tmux
From the terminal, reload TMUX environment:
tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
If format strings are added to status-right
, they should now be visible.
Add any of the supported format strings (see below) to the status-right
tmux option in .tmux.conf
. Example:
set -g status-right '#{battery_status_bg} Batt: #{battery_icon} #{battery_percentage} #{battery_remain} | %a %h-%d %H:%M '
#{battery_color_bg}
- will set the background color of the status bar based on the battery charge level if discharging and status otherwise#{battery_color_fg}
- will set the foreground color of the status bar based on the battery charge level if discharging and status otherwise#{battery_color_charge_bg}
- will set the background color of the status bar based solely on the battery charge level#{battery_color_charge_fg}
- will set the foreground color of the status bar based solely on the battery charge level#{battery_color_status_bg}
- will set the background color of the status bar based solely on the battery status#{battery_color_status_fg}
- will set the foreground color of the status bar based solely on the battery status#{battery_graph}
- will show battery percentage as a bar graph: ▁▂▄▆█#{battery_icon}
- will display a battery status/charge icon#{battery_icon_charge}
- will display a battery charge icon#{battery_icon_status}
- will display a battery status icon#{battery_percentage}
- will show battery percentage#{battery_remain}
- will show remaining time of battery charge** These format strings can be further customized via options as described below.
#{battery_remain}
@batt_remain_short
: 'true' / 'false' - This will shorten the time remaining (when charging or discharging) to ~H:MM
.@batt_remain_short
: 'false'By default, the following colors and icons are used. (The exact colors displayed depends on your terminal / X11 config.)
Please be aware that the 'level of charge' as noted below (e.g. [80%-95%)
) uses interval notation. If you are unfamiliar with it, check it out here.
Also, a note about the @batt_color_...
options: @batt_color_..._primary_...
options are what will be displayed in the main bg
or fg
format strings you choose - e.g. if you use #{battery_color_bg}
, the @batt_color_..._primary_...
colors you choose will be the background. Likewise, the corresponding @batt_color_..._secondary_...
color will be the foreground.
Level of Charge Colors:
@batt_color_charge_primary_tier8
): '#00ff00'@batt_color_charge_primary_tier7
): '#55ff00'@batt_color_charge_primary_tier6
): '#aaff00'@batt_color_charge_primary_tier5
): '#ffff00'@batt_color_charge_primary_tier4
): '#ffc000'@batt_color_charge_primary_tier3
): '#ff8000'@batt_color_charge_primary_tier2
): '#ff4000'@batt_color_charge_primary_tier1
): '#ff0000'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier8
): 'colour0'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier7
): 'colour0'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier6
): 'colour0'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier5
): 'colour0'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier4
): 'colour0'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier3
): 'colour0'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier2
): 'colour0'@batt_color_charge_secondary_tier1
): 'colour0'Status Colors:
@batt_color_status_primary_charged
): 'colour33'@batt_color_status_primary_charging
): 'colour33'@batt_color_status_primary_discharging
): 'colour14'@batt_color_status_primary_attached
): 'colour201'@batt_color_status_primary_unknown
): 'colour7'@batt_color_status_secondary_charged
): 'colour0'@batt_color_status_secondary_charging
): 'colour0'@batt_color_status_secondary_discharging
): 'colour0'@batt_color_status_secondary_attached
): 'colour0'@batt_color_status_secondary_unknown
): 'colour0'Level of Charge Icons:
@batt_icon_charge_tier8
): '█'@batt_icon_charge_tier7
): '▇'@batt_icon_charge_tier6
): '▆'@batt_icon_charge_tier5
): '▅'@batt_icon_charge_tier4
): '▄'@batt_icon_charge_tier3
): '▃'@batt_icon_charge_tier2
): '▂'@batt_icon_charge_tier1
): '▁'Status Icons:
@batt_icon_status_charged
): '🔌'@batt_icon_status_charged
): '🔌'@batt_icon_status_charging
): '🔌'@batt_icon_status_discharging
): '🔋'@batt_icon_status_attached
): '⚠️'@batt_icon_status_unknown
): '?'All efforts have been made to make sane defaults, but if you wish to change any of them, add the option to .tmux.conf
. For example:
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier8 '🌕'
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier7 '🌖'
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier6 '🌖'
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier5 '🌗'
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier4 '🌗'
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier3 '🌘'
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier2 '🌘'
set -g @batt_icon_charge_tier1 '🌑'
set -g @batt_icon_status_charged '🔋'
set -g @batt_icon_status_charging '⚡'
set -g @batt_icon_status_discharging '👎'
set -g @batt_color_status_primary_charged '#3daee9'
set -g @batt_color_status_primary_charging '#3daee9'
Don't forget to reload the tmux environment after you do this by either hitting <prefix> + I
if tmux battery is installed via the tmux plugin manager, or by typing tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
in the terminal if tmux battery is manually installed.
Warning: The battery icon change most likely will not be instant. When you un-plug the power cord, it will take some time (15 - 60 seconds) for the icon to change. This depends on the status-interval
tmux option. Setting it to 15 seconds should be good enough.
These are all examples of the default plugin color and icon schemes paired with the default tmux color scheme using the following status-right
and status-right-length
settings in .tmux.conf
set -g status-right 'Colors: #{battery_color_bg}bg#[default] #{battery_color_fg}fg#[default] #{battery_color_charge_bg}charge_bg#[default] #{battery_color_charge_fg}charge_fg#[default] #{battery_color_status_bg}status_bg#[default] #{battery_color_status_fg}status_fg#[default] | Graph: #{battery_graph} | Icon: #{battery_icon} | Charge Icon: #{battery_icon_charge} | Status Icon: #{battery_icon_status} | Percent: #{battery_percentage} | Remain: #{battery_remain}'
set -g status-right-length '150'
Battery charging at tier 8 [95%-100%]:
Battery charging at tier 7 [80%-95%):
Battery charging at tier 6 [65%-80%):
Battery charging at tier 5 [50%-65%):
Battery charging at tier 4 [35%-50%):
Battery charging at tier 3 [20%-35%):
Battery charging at tier 2 (5%-20%):
Battery charging at tier 1 [0%-5%]:
Battery discharging at tier 8 [95%-100%]:
Battery discharging at tier 7 [80%-95%):
Battery discharging at tier 6 [65%-80%):
Battery discharging at tier 5 [50%-65%):
Battery discharging at tier 4 [35%-50%):
Battery discharging at tier 3 [20%-35%):
Battery discharging at tier 2 (5%-20%):
Battery discharging at tier 1 [0%-5%]:
Battery in 'attached' status:
Battery in an unknown status:
This plugin is part of the tmux-plugins organisation. Checkout plugins as resurrect, logging, online status, and many more over at the tmux-plugins organisation page.