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A one line solution to a self-inflicted problem

2021-01-06 | #urxvt #i3 #pywal #variety #tmux #FOSS #linux

I use pywal with the variety wallpaper changer to automatically change the color scheme of urxvt. I have all this happening in the background and set to a one hour interval. I also have a hot key assigned in my i3 config file so that i can make all this happen whenever I like as well. This all really cool, and I will probably submit a post one day explaining all that in case anyone is interested, but having a terminal color scheme that changes based on the colors in your wallpaper on an hourly basis can wreak havoc sometimes; stuff like syntax highlighting in vim, and tmux status bars can sometimes become hard to read when the colors switch to a less than ideal scheme.

While I have not taken the time to fix the issue with vim, as I don't always use syntax highlighting, I have fixed the issue with tmux. As an aside, I was a GNU screen user for many years, but switched to tmux 4 or 5 years ago. Anyway, back to tmux, the issue I was having was that the status bar in tmux would change to a color scheme that would sometimes make the window names difficult to read.

The solution I stumbled upon was a one line addition to my .tmux.conf file:

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