I would like to change the background color of the inactive panes in tmux to better distinguish between the active pane and inactive panes. Something just a few shades different than the default. How could I do this?
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Can you use escape sequences for terminal colours? – Agi Hammerthief Jan 13 '15 at 12:55
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newly read through manpage of tmux 1.9 , seems only status lines and borders are customisable . – 把友情留在无盐 Jan 27 '15 at 9:25
UPDATE:
A newer version of tmux now allows this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33553372/1204312
There is currently no way to do this.
See this accepted answer on stackoverflow which suggests changing pane-borders instead.
You can set values for pane-active-border-style and pane-border-style in your ~/.tmux.conf.
See this answer for more details configuring these values (and some inconsistencies between tmux versions).
