lilyball / tmux-prefix-highlight

Plugin that highlights when you press tmux prefix key

Tmux prefix highlight

Plugin that highlights when you press tmux prefix key. Inspired by this thread on stackoverflow.

Many thanks to @obxhdx for showing me this trick.

Prefix off:

Prefix on:

Usage

Just add #{prefix_highlight} to your left/right status bar.

set -g status-right '#{prefix_highlight} | %a %Y-%m-%d %H:%M'

Installation with Tmux Plugin Manager (recommended)

Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins:

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-prefix-highlight'

Press prefix + I to install it.

Manual Installation

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-prefix-highlight.git ~/clone/path

Add this line to your .tmux.conf:

run-shell ~/clone/path/prefix_highlight.tmux

Reload TMUX environment with:

$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Configurations

set -g @prefix_highlight_fg 'white'
set -g @prefix_highlight_bg 'blue'

License

MIT