Use window titles for tabs instead of directory names

[RobertMenke]

Hey, it's pretty common to use multiple tmux windows in the same directory. Currently, this config uses the name of the working directory to describe the tab and only shows the window title in a tab on the right. It seems like this should be the inverse, with the window titles describing the tabs and the directory name shown on the right.

Example from a project I'm working on:

Thank you for putting this config together!

[nekowinston]

That makes sense, I'll give it a try this week.

[RobertMenke]

Wonderful, thank you!!

[unseen-ninja]

On a further note: Is this something that can be decoupled from the colour scheme and put into the users responsibility to configure to their liking?

[nekowinston]

I merged the PR for TPM support (#2), so now we have options available in the theme:

https://github.com/catppuccin/tmux/blob/bd1ea4b86a159faddbb049e6be8082217348234d/catppuccin.tmux#L19

I think this issue is absolutely worth having an option for, especially if people get the preset from TPM.

[unseen-ninja]

Agreed. With things like this, that are something that every user might want to handle differently, we should give a choice. c:

[sdemura]

I've been using this fork, which does exactly this: https://github.com/rwxd/catppuccin-tmux

[rogeruiz]

@RobertMenke I agree with @andreasgrafen on this. I think the best approach here is to do this kind of work in waves. I'm curious to hear some feedback on this question.

• Is your current issue here that you want to flip the folders to the right hand side and the windows to the left hand side? If so that's a good place to start with customizing things.

Also, I have some pretty ambitious ideas here to allow anyone to run any arbitrary command on either side of the line including the middle if they want by adding calls to custom scripts that you maintain yourself.

[RobertMenke]

@rogeruiz Exactly! Cool idea on arbitrary customization I’d just make sure that it’s documented to use caution running 3rd party code there for newcomers ;).

[rogeruiz]

Alright, #22 should close this when it's merged into the default branch. If anyone would like to test this out, you should be able to set a new remote to my GH fork and then change branches to add-option-to-display-folders.

The commands to do that in your local Git repository should be:

cd ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux
git remote add rogeruiz https://github.com/rogeruiz/tmux.git
git fetch --all
git checkout add-option-to-display-folders

Afterwards, you can follow the documentation in the README.md to turn on the feature. Remember to source your Tmux configuration file when you update it if you're in a session.

When you're done, you can remove the remote and go back to the default branch with the following:

cd ~/.tmux/plugins/tmux
git remote rm rogeruiz
git checkout main

[RobertMenke]

@nekowinston Does @rogeruiz 's PR adequately address this issue from your point of view?

[nekowinston]

From what I've seen shared in Discord, yes; just didn't have the time to check it out for myself. I'm still glad I didn't mess the repo up when I merged the old PRs (#11 & #2) because I'm not really confident writing/reviewing tmux plugins.

@Pocco81 have you had a chance to look at the PRs? Otherwise, I'll try to get it done this weekend.