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I am loosing my mind. Which of these settings is causing black on black text when I enter tmux's "command mode" (normally obtained with Crtl-B-:? I tried playing with the settings of window-status-bell-style, message-command-style and mode-style then Crtl-Q-r to reload the config file but to no avail. Do the styling changes only apply after tmux server reboot or opening a new window despite reloading the config file ?

unbind C-b
#unbind -n C-b # this will reset C-b to default (back one character)
set -g prefix C-q
# bind-key C-q last-window
bind-key q send-prefix

set -sg escape-time 1


set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"


set-option -g default-terminal "screen-256color"


set -g history-limit 10000


set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'


start first window at 1 instead of 0


set -g base-index 1


reload config


bind r source-file ~/.tmux.conf ; display-message "Config reloaded..."


auto window rename


set-window-option -g automatic-rename


modes


setw -g clock-mode-colour colour5
setw -g mode-style 'fg=colour8 bg=colour9 bold'


panes


set -g pane-border-style 'fg=colour19 bg=colour0'
set -g pane-active-border-style 'bg=colour0 fg=colour9'


statusbar


set -g status-position bottom
set -g status-justify left
set -g status-style 'bg=colour18 fg=colour137 dim'
set -g status-left ''
set -g status-right '#[fg=colour233,bg=colour19] %d/%m #[fg=colour233,bg=colour8] %H:%M:%S '
set -g status-right-length 50
set -g status-left-length 20


setw -g window-status-current-style 'fg=colour1 bg=colour19 bold'
setw -g window-status-current-format ' #I#[fg=colour249]:#[fg=colour255]#W#[fg=colour249]#F '


setw -g window-status-style 'fg=colour9 bg=colour18'
setw -g window-status-format ' #I#[fg=colour237]:#[fg=colour250]#W#[fg=colour244]#F '


setw -g window-status-bell-style 'fg=colour=19 bg=colour9 bold'


messages


set -g message-style 'fg=colour232 bg=colour16 bold'


Activity monitoring


setw -g monitor-activity off
set -g visual-activity off


Rather than constraining window size to the maximum size of any client


connected to the session, constrain window size to the maximum size of any


client connected to that window. Much more reasonable.


setw -g aggressive-resize on


Toggle mouse on with ^B m


bind m 

  set -g mode-mouse on ;

  set -g mouse-resize-pane on ;

  set -g mouse-select-pane on ;

  set -g mouse-select-window on ;

  display 'Mouse: ON'


Toggle mouse off with ^B M


bind M 

  set -g mode-mouse off ;

  set -g mouse-resize-pane off ;

  set -g mouse-select-pane off ;

  set -g mouse-select-window off ;

  display 'Mouse: OFF'


loud or quiet?


set-option -g visual-activity off


set-option -g visual-bell off


set-option -g visual-content off


set-option -g visual-silence off


set-window-option -g monitor-activity off


set-window-option -g monitor-content on


set-option -g bell-action none

This question could be a duplicate of tmux bottom bar color change, but the answer there focuses more on colour picking then explaining the different settings.

Julien Lamarche
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It's this line:

set -g message-style 'fg=colour232 bg=colour16 bold'

232 is (mostly) black and 16 is black as well.

 message-style style
        Set status line message style.  This is used for messages and 
        for the command prompt.  For how to specify style, see the 
        STYLES section.

Try:

set -g message-style 'fg=white bg=black bold'
laktak
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