changing pane styles and formats conditionally

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

I tried to changing pane styles and formats like this and I can't seem
to get the pane border style to change colour if inactive

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# setting pane titles and colours conditionally
%if "#{pane_active}"
set -g pane-active-border-style bg=red,fg=black
set -g pane-border-style fg=black
set-option -g pane-border-format "#stuff here"
%else
set -g pane-active-border-style bg=blue,fg=black
set -g pane-border-style fg=black
set-option -g pane-border-format "#stuff here"
%endif
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what am I doing wrong?

sivaram
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[Nicholas Marriott]

%if only works when the file is parsed. You cannot do this easily unless you build tmux from master - then you can use formats directly in pane-border-style.

Although there isn't much point in doing that for pane_active since that's what pane-active-border-style already does.

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[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Thu, May 28 2020,Nicholas Marriott wrote:

> %if only works when the file is parsed. You cannot do this easily
> unless you build tmux from master - then you can use formats
> directly in pane-border-style.
>
> Although there isn't much point in doing that for pane_active since
> that's what pane-active-border-style already does.
>

Thanks for clarifying. Is there any way to grey out the pane titles
for non-active panes? The use case is simply that the active pane
needs to be bright including pane titles while the remaining panes
needs to have more subdued colours in the title or grayed out.


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sivaram
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[Nicholas Marriott]

If you only want to change the pane status line then you can use
embedded styles in pane-border-format, look at
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Getting-Started#embedded-styles

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