status bar custom background

[vdbe]

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[vdbe]

Some text/icon used thm_bg as foreground.
Maybe it's a better solution to add local color_bg=$5/local color_text=$5 instead of reusing the status background.
We can default to $status_background to avoid breaking changes

[vdbe]

@Gaurav-Gosain What do you think?

[Gaurav-Gosain]

@vdbe thank you so much for this, I will test it out, but just having a quick glance, it looks like a good solution to the problem!

[89iuv]

I am getting this result:

I am using:

set -g @catppuccin_status_background "red"

This changes only the status background leaving the other part of tmux unchanged.

[vdbe]

#170 only changed the status bar color, not colors that matched the status-bar by using $thm_bg as background (or foreground in some cases)

With the config

# set -g @catppuccin_status_background "#ff0000"
set -g @catppuccin_status_background "red"

I get

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[89iuv]

I understand the issue now.

There is a disconnect between the status color which is red and the separator background which is $thm_bg.

It would be better to somehow make that part transparent so that it blends into the background, but until then the proposed solution also works.

[vdbe]

It's not just the build_status_module build_window_format has the same issue.
Also just replace thm_bg with status_background for now?

[Gaurav-Gosain]

So I managed to get it working for my local setup by doing the following:

I use catppuccin-mocha so I modified ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux/catppuccin-mocha.tmuxtheme and set the thm_bg variable to default.

thm_bg="default"

This gets most of the job done and should be plenty for most. However after doing this, the background of the icons changed to a light gray which didn't look good with my setup so I went ahead and modified the fg for show_icon to use $thm_gray instead of $thm_bg.

[vdbe]

Replaced by #175