Tmux online status

Tmux plugin that enables displaying online status for your workstation.

Introduces a new #{online_status} format.

This plugin is useful if:

• you spend most of your time in Tmux and don't want to "switch" away from the terminal to check whether you're connected.
• you have a flaky internet connection and you don't want to be surprised when a simple curl or wget fails because the connection just broke.

Tested and working on Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, and Cygwin.

Usage

Add #{online_status} format string to your existing status-right tmux option.

Here's the example in .tmux.conf:

set -g status-right "Online: #{online_status} | %a %h-%d %H:%M "

OS X
On OS X the above will look like this when online

or this when offline

Linux
Online status on Linux

offline status

Configure icons

If the icons don't display well on your machine you can change them in .tmux.conf:

set -g @online_icon "ok"
set -g @offline_icon "offline!"

Installation with Tmux Plugin Manager (recommended)

Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins in .tmux.conf:

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-online-status'

Hit prefix + I to fetch the plugin and source it.

#{online_status} interpolation should now work.

Manual Installation

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-online-status ~/clone/path

Add this line to the bottom of .tmux.conf:

run-shell ~/clone/path/online_status.tmux

Reload TMUX environment:

# type this in terminal
$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

#{online_status} interpolation should now work.

Limitations

Online status icon most likely won't be instant. The duration depends on the status-interval Tmux option. So, it might take anywhere between 5 and 60 seconds for online status icon to change.

Set status-interval to a low number to make this faster, example:

# in .tmux.conf
set -g status-interval 5

Other plugins

You might also find these useful:

• battery - battery status in Tmux status-right
• logging - easy logging and screen capturing

License

MIT