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.

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 "

The above will result in this:

or this

On linux the emoji is not displayed, instead it will look like this:

or this

The icon will of course change as you connect/disconnect from the internet.

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

set -g @tpm_plugins "                 \
  tmux-plugins/tpm                    \
  tmux-plugins/tmux-online-status     \
"

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

#{online_status} interpolation should now work.

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.

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

You might also find these useful:

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

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