Tmux Window Index

A tmux plugin that lets you change how windows indices are displayed.

Default tmux behavior (Arabic numbers):

With this plugin (Chinese numbers):

Usage

Just add #{window_index} to your window-status-format and
window-status-current-format. For example:

setw -g window-status-format "#{window_index} #W "

The plugin can also be configured to control what indices are used.
See the Configuration section for more information.

Installation with Tmux Plugin Manager (recommended)

Add plugin to the list of TPM plugins:

set -g @plugin 'tsroten/tmux-window-index'

Press prefix + I to install it.

Manual Installation

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/tsroten/tmux-window-index.git

Add this line to your .tmux.conf:

run-shell ~/path/to/window_index.tmux

Reload TMUX environment with:

$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Configuration

The window indices can be configured with a pipe-delimited list:

set -g @window_indices "〇|一|二|三|四|五|六|七|八|九|十|十一|十二"