README.md out of date?

[christianparpart]

Section Config: https:/erikw/tmux-powerline#config-file

seems to be wrong, or at least out of date. I have zero prior knowledge of tmux-powerline (nor tpm), but i barely made it working. Now, the problem seems to be I cannot configure it. Despite trying to follow the config section in the README.md, which is partly wrong, I feel like my changes to ~/.tmux-powerlinerc are ignored.

Most importantly, the segments are showing way to much, like everything (so it feels), so I tried to find not to display that much, like, disabling some things, like ifstat.sh, but I seem not to find the documentation that tells me how to. - Do you have any hints for me?

Many thanks.

[erikw]

The README is updated to not reference the old configuration file ~/.tmux-powerlinerc anymore, only the new ~/.config/tmux-powerline/config.sh.

[benjaminmikiten]

I ended up here, trying to follow the README, and hope to add some context for anyone else who comes looking.

After some digging, I found that when paths.sh tries to set the $TMUX_POWERLINE_RCFILE it looks to see if ~/.config/tmux-powerline is set, and defaults to the old .tmux-powerlinerc if it's not.

If you've installed this with tpm, you may find that ~/.config/tmux-powerline/config.sh.default hasn't been created, as ~/.config/tmux-powerline will be in ~/.config/tmux/plugins/tmux-powerline, causing the paths.sh function above to use a .tmux-powerlinerc isntead.

[erikw]

@benjaminmikiten interesting. Maybe it's time to remove support for that old configuration file ~/.tmux-powerlinerc to make the code easier and more stable.

Could you test if this PR solves the problem?
#335

You can check the PR out with

$ cd you/tmux-powerline/clone
$ git fetch origin pull/335/head:fix-330

[benjaminmikiten]

Yes, I'll confirm these changes -- just one moment.

[benjaminmikiten]

Running ./generate_rc throws an error from line 107 of rcfile.sh saying that config.sh.default doesn't exist.

The file it's trying to pipe to is at ~/.config/tmux-powerline/config.sh.default but my tmux-powerline folder is in ~/.config/tmux/plugins

[erikw]

@benjaminmikiten Thank you for testing. I could replicate this by removing my ~/.config/tmux-powerline dir.

Could you update the PR branch to the latest commit and try again please?

[benjaminmikiten]

That did it! I now have a ~/.config/tmux-powerline. Thank you!