powerline appears on top of the default tmux status

[roseperrone]

I'm on mac OS 10.8 running the latest tmux. The default tmux status has a bright green background, and this color and its title are visible underneath the powerline status.

[erikw]

Strange, screenshot? Similar/same as this issue?

[roseperrone]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply! There is no Preferences -> Settings -> Advanced in iTerm2. Where can I find the East Asian characters option?

On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Erik Westrup notifications@github.com wrote:

Strange, screenshot? Similar/same as this issue?

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[erikw]

I don't have access to my mac so I can't check this out my self. Maybe I misunderstood @narze and he meant Terminal.app? In that thread iTerm2 was mentioned before his answer so I assumed that he used it too. Mess around with the iTerm options and see if you can find something :-)

[roseperrone]

The character encoding is UTF-8, and a search through the prefs and google turned up nothing. Do you have other ideas? I'm using bash and xterm.

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I don't have access to my mac so I can't check this out my self. Maybe I misunderstood @narze and he meant Terminal.app? In that thread iTerm2 was mentioned before his answer so I assumed that he used it too. Mess around with the iTerm options and see if you can find something :-)

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[roseperrone]

Do you thinx tmux-powerline depends on another dot file that has an option that's not being overridden?

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I don't have access to my mac so I can't check this out my self. Maybe I misunderstood @narze and he meant Terminal.app? In that thread iTerm2 was mentioned before his answer so I assumed that he used it too. Mess around with the iTerm options and see if you can find something :-)

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[erikagnvall]

Strange indeed, could you provide a screenshot? Also, a Gist with the contents of ~/.tmux-powerlinerc and ~/.tmux.conf would be helpful.

If you're running iTerm2, make sure that Preferences>Profiles>Text>"Treat ambiguous-width characters as double width" is unchecked because that caused some strange issues for me.

[roseperrone]

Where can I find the .tmux-powerline.conf? Here's my .tmux.conf:

unbind some default keybindings

unbind C-b

set prefix key to ctrl-a

#set -g prefix Home
#set -g prefix End
set -g prefix C-a
#bind-key Home C-a

lower command delay

set -sg escape-time 1

start first window and pane at 1, not zero

set -g base-index 1
set -g pane-base-index 1

bind r to reloading the config file

bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf ; display "Reloaded tmux config file."

pass through a ctrl-a if you press it twice

bind C-a send-prefix

better mnemonics for splitting panes!

bind | split-window -h
bind - split-window -v

#set-option -g status on
#set-option -g status-interval 2
#set-option -g status-utf8 on
#set-option -g status-justify "centre"
#set-option -g status-left-length 60
#set-option -g status-right-length 90
#set-option -g status-left "#(/usr/local/Cellar/tmux-powerline/powerline.sh left)"
#set-option -g status-right "#(/usr/local/Cellar/tmux-powerline/powerline.sh right)"
#set-window-option -g window-status-current-format "#[fg=colour235, bg=colour27]⮀#[fg=colour255, bg=colour27] #I ⮁ #W #[fg=colour27, bg=colour235]⮀"
#bind C-[ run '/path/to/tmux-powerline/mute_powerline.sh left' # Mute left statusbar.
#bind C-] run '/path/to/tmux-powerline/mute_powerline.sh right' # Mute right statusbar.

On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:34 AM, Erik Jansson notifications@github.com wrote:

Strange indeed, could you provide a screenshot? Also, a Gist with the contents of ~/.tmux-powerlinerc and ~/.tmux.conf would be helpful.

If you're running iTerm2, make sure that Preferences>Profiles>Text>"Treat ambiguous-width characters as double width" is unchecked because that caused some strange issues for me.

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[erikw]

If you followed the steps in the README the conf generator script should have put it in ~.tmux.-powerlinerc.default. Check that part of the readme again :-)

[mikesplain]

If I'm understanding you correctly, I'm experiencing the same issue right now... things looked fine on friday and now my tmux is messed up... rebooted so I may have had something set in my env previously.

[erikagnvall]

I found what I believe is the problem. I compared your conf to mine and tried yours (with the same result as you had). I then began adding things from my conf and the problem disappeared once I added the line sourcing tmux-colors-solarized/tmuxcolors.conf. Try installing tmux-colors-solarized and sourcing it from .tmux.conf with the following line:

source /path/to/tmux-colors-solarized/tmuxcolors-256.conf

[mikesplain]

Ahh, I just took the lines from that file and put them in my .tmux.conf file and that fixed the problem. Good find!

[roseperrone]

Thanks. That worked. The only issue now is that it looks bad. I turned off all segments but a few, and parts of the status are unreadable.

[ajongsma]

@roseperrone I have been struggling with the same exact thing for many days now on OS X 10.8:

First I checked the install, please read step 1 to 3 (https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline/tree/develop/fontpatcher#os-x)

Step 4 still caused python errors so I decided to brew with another formula:
$ brew install --use-gcc https://raw.github.com/ummels/homebrew/fontforge/Library/Formula/fontforge.rb
$ brew linkapps

After this step I was able to successfully patch a random selected font:
$ /usr/local/bin/fontforge -lang=py -script $HOME/Github/vim-powerline/fontpatcher/fontpatcher /Library/Fonts/Verdana.ttf
$ open Verdana-Powerline.ttf

PS: After this step all powerline fonts suddenly seemed to work oddly enough, further investigation is required but I figured above might help you out

[supernullset]

Hi all; I think I may have tracked this one down.

I'm using Zsh, the usual caveats apply

After having the GIANT GREEN BAR ISSUE for 2 days I could not take it anymore. I figured that something was getting botched in my .tmux.conf; the offending option is status-bg, it does not matter if you have it set or not. By setting status-bg to colour235(default powerline background color), the green bar will go away into the mist. You may need to have set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" in the conf as well.

If you have changed the default background color in your powerline theme, substitute it for colour235

tl;dr:

set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
set -g status-bg colour235

[erikw]

Does that help you other guys too?

[jtuz]

Hey @supernullset and @erikw this works for me, Thanks a lot!

[supernullset]

@jtuz No problem! Glad that I could help!

[elbo-01]

@supernullset thank you very much for the tip: set -g status-bg colour235