Theme isn't installing when I press Ctrl + b followed by capital I

[JwanKhalaf]

Hello

Here's my config..

When I press Ctrl + b followed by capital I, I get shown this:

But the Tmux's look doesn't update! For some reason, I still see this:

What am I missing? I of course tried re-sourcing the config:

 tmux source ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf

I also tried rebooting, but nothing seems to work. Also, when I look at ~/.config/tmux/plugins I do not see catppuccin listed!

~ ❯ l ~/.config/tmux/plugins
Permissions Size User Group Date Modified Name
drwxr-xr-x     - j    j     24 Jan 07:59  tmux
drwxr-xr-x     - j    j     24 Jan 07:59  tmux-sensible
drwxr-xr-x     - j    j     24 Jan 07:59  tmux-yank
drwxr-xr-x     - j    j     24 Jan 12:15  tpm
drwxr-xr-x     - j    j     24 Jan 07:59  vim-tmux-navigator
~ ❯

[igops]

same problem 👍

[bwbuhse]

Same here; the exact same config worked on my laptop a while ago but I've been trying to get tmux set up on my desktop and now it won't install.

set -g prefix C-a
bind C-a send-prefix

bind -n C-k clear-history

# set shell
# set -g default-shell /usr/bin/zsh
# set -g default-command /usr/bin/fish

# set term to tmux instead of gnu screen
# this enables proper italics support
set -ga terminal-overrides ",xterm-256color:Tc"
set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"

setw -g mode-keys vi

set-option -g status-position top

# List of plugins
set -g @plugin 'catppuccin/tmux'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control'
set -g @catppuccin_flavour 'mocha'

# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run -b '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'

[igops]

@pocco81 @89iuv any thoughts guys?

[89iuv]

Can you try to load tpm before you load catppuccin?

Ex:

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'catppuccin/tmux'

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control'

[igops]

Can you try to load tpm before you load catppuccin?

Ex:

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'catppuccin/tmux'

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-pain-control'

It doesn't work at all :(

[89iuv]

From your configuration TPM will download the catppuccin theme and put it in:

~/.config/tmux/plugins/tmux

From the screenshot it looks like it has already been installed.

I can think of 2 ideas you could try:

1. Update the plugins by using: ctrl+b U and then type "all"
2. If the previous method fails try to delete the catppuccin folder and reinstall the plugin.

[JwanKhalaf]

@89iuv where would the catppuccin folder be? I can't see it under ~/.config/tmux/plugins.

[bwbuhse]

For me, catppuccin is in neither of those places.

~ 
❯ eza -l ~/.config/tmux/plugins                                                               
drwxr-xr-x - ben 13 Nov  2023 tmux
drwxr-xr-x - ben 19 Nov  2023 tmux-pain-control
drwxr-xr-x - ben 13 Nov  2023 tmux-sensible
drwxr-xr-x - ben 13 Nov  2023 tpm

~ 
❯ eza -l ~/.tmux/plugins       
drwxr-xr-x - ben 24 Jan 17:15 tpm

Similarly, when I do ^a + I I get

Already installed "tmux"                                                                                                                [0/0]
Already installed "tpm"            
Already installed "tmux-sensible"  
Already installed "tmux-pain-control"                                 

TMUX environment reloaded.  

with no mention of Catppuccin, even though it's in my config. I've also tried with it before and after the tpm line.

[89iuv]

The name of the catppuccin folder is called "tmux"

Please run: ls -al ~/.config/tmux/plugins/tmux and provide the output.

• this should list the contents of the catppuccin plugin folder

After that please try to run in tmux: ctrl+b U and then type "all", hit enter and provide the output.

• this should update all plugins in tmux

[JwanKhalaf]

Here's what I get:

~/.config/tmux/plugins/tmux main ❯ ls -lah
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 j j  0 Jan 24 07:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 j j 94 Jan 24 12:39 ..
~/.config/tmux/plugins/tmux main ❯

Doing ctrl+b U asked me what I wanted to update, I typed all and pressed Enter, then restarted everything, but again, no catppuccin for me.

[bwbuhse]

Seems like after running the update all it still didn't work (said it was up to date), but then removing the tmux directory under ../plugins and running ctrl+a I again did install it correctly... ? *shrug*

[89iuv]

Seems like after running the update all it still didn't work (said it was up to date), but then removing the tmux directory under ../plugins and running ctrl+a I again did install it correctly... ? shrug

I think that somehow TPM created an empty "tmux" directory in the plugins folder (why this happened i do not know). This created the issue above and the only solution seems to be to remove the "tmux" directory from plugins and reinstall the plugin.

[JwanKhalaf]

Can confirm. Removing the directory with rm -rf ~/.config/tmux/plugins/tmux then re-doing ctrl + b I got the theme installed and showing again! 🎉 Thanks all

[igops]

Confirm removing tmux plugin resolves the issue.

How came the tmux catppuccin plugin is called just tmux? 😱
This is sooooo confusing guys!

[marcusps]

tmux-plugins/tpm#273 is closely related -- this may be better thought of as a tpm issue. There is a PR tmux-plugins/tpm#274 under review that would fix it.

[sgoudham]

Closing as root cause is a duplicate of #129