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emk2203
Asked: 2018-09-07 04:00:27 +0800 CST

How to configure conky in a tmux session?

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I want to have a custom footer in my tmux session with conky, my conky config as per conky official recommendation for screen:

conky.config = {
    out_to_x = false,
    out_to_console = true,
    total_run_times = 1
};
conky.text = [[${time %H:%M}|free space:${fs_free /}|$loadavg|free mem:$memeasyfree]]

tmux contains just one line in .tmux.conf:

set-option -g status-left "#(conky -i 1 -c ~/.conkyintmux) |"

but when I start tmux, the footer line reads

13:48|free0:bash*                                     "D830-2" 13:48 06-Sep-18

and without any .tmux.conf (not calling conky), it would read

[0] 0:bash* "D830-2" 13:53 06-Sep-18

Expected output:

13:48|free space:8.0GB|0.1 0.1 0.1|free mem:548MB|[0] 0:bash* "D830-2" 13:53 06-Sep-18

for a start to see if everything is as expected.

How can I change the behaviour of tmux?

conky console tmux

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You will need to add a tmux line such as

    set-option -g status-left-length 50

    as the default length is 10 characters, so your conky output is being heavily truncated.

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