Tmux Session Coloring
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Recently, I’ve really gotten into tmux for managing all my terminal sessions/windows. Not so much for the panes, but more for keeping a highly contextual environment per project or task.
As the number of sessions grew, they became difficult to tell apart. For a few days now, I’ve had the idea of hashing the name of the session into a unique color, so that every session had its own status-bg
color.
First, the tmuxHashColor
function:
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In our ns
function (new session), we hash the supplied session name to a color, then use tmux send-keys
to set its status-bg
color to it:
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Now every session has it’s own distinct status-bg
color!