tmux-powerline disappears if status-left-length/right too wide

when i had the config as you listed in my .tmux.conf, nothing showed up. you were showing an example, however i think it might be better to find a fairly universal environment variable to determine the area things are displayed in.(possibly $COLUMNS is universal enough?)

btw, it now works for me, but if you need to recreate me not seeing anything in the status with the 60/90, i'm running debian stable xmonad (mainly from cabal but parts from apt), rxvt-unicode (deb).

Sep 16 '12 14:09 ag4ve

I'm not completely with you. The issue was that you could not see the segments because the terminal window was too small?

Sep 17 '12 03:09 erikw

if the width is set too high, the bar becomes gray - has no information - not the powerline stuff or list of consoles.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Erik Westrup [email protected]:

Not completely with you. The issue was that you could not see the segments because the terminal window was too small?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline/issues/48#issuecomment-8603432.

Sep 17 '12 03:09 ag4ve

Do you mean the tmux settings status-left-length and status-right-length?

Sep 17 '12 04:09 erikw

yes. it seems i can set one to be however wide i want, but if i use what is presented on the readme (60/90) or anything greater than about 60/60, everything goes away. if i have time, i'll look at writing a test suite for y'all.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Erik Westrup [email protected]:

Do you mean the tmux settings status-left-length and status-right-length

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline/issues/48#issuecomment-8603922.

Sep 17 '12 06:09 ag4ve

I think I'm facing the same problem as the OP. When the terminal size is changed, the size of the left and right powerline status bar stays constant and the centre area containing the tmux window list shrinks/grows.

If if terminal shrinks more than the sum of the left and right status bar, the content of the bar disappears completely. However, it still occupies the space and paints it using the background colour.

I agree that it's impossible to place more content than the terminal width allows, but I would prefer to drop the power bars entirely and just display the tmux window list.