tmux nerd font window name plugin

Automatically add Nerd Font support to your tmux window names!

Requirements

The following dependencies are required in order to use this plugin:

tmux
tpm
yq (>=4)

Installation (via tpm)

Add the following line to your tmux configuration file:

set -g @plugin 'joshmedeski/tmux-nerd-font-window-name'

Run <prefix>+I to trigger the tpm installer which will download and source the plugin.

Configuration

You can configure this plugin by creating a ~/.config/tmux/tmux-nerd-font-window-name.yml file. The following options can be changed:

config:
  fallback-icon: "?" # show when no definition is found
  multi-pane-icon: "" # show when window has multiple panes (blank by default)
  show-name: true # show the window name with the icon (defaults to false)
  icon-position: "left" # show the icon to the "left" or "right" of the window name (defaults to left)

icons:
  zsh: "" # overwrite with your own symbol (Nerd Font icon, emoji, whatever!)
  cmatrix: "🤯" # add new entries that aren't included

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to make a pull request to submit more preset icon settings or improve the codebase!

Intro Video

Here is the introduction blog post and video that I made for this plugin:

Additional tmux plugins

I've authored a few other tmux plugins that you might find useful: