Status bar revisited
Last time we touched the status bar, we altered its colors, but we did not do anything to change its content. tmux allows us to change a lot of different aspects of the content of the status bar. We won't have an in-depth look at every possible configuration, but will explain the concept and show one example.
So, the status bar has three chunks basically:
- status-left: This represents the stuff on the status bar on the left-hand side, including the current session
- List of open windows: This appears in the middle by default
- status-right: This represents the stuff on the status bar on the right-hand side, including the current date
Recall our status bar, which appears as shown in the following screenshot:
By default, status-left shows ...
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