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I'm trying to resize the status bar from tmux and I don't find anywhere where they show how to do it. My main problem is that it's too big for me and kinda distracting. tmux

I want to be able to resize the status bar so I see the numbers of each window a little smaller

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    It’s one line on the terminal. Things don’t go smaller than that. But maybe I misunderstand?
    – Daniel B
    Commented Feb 2 at 14:37
  • Is it the font size that's too large?
    – harrymc
    Commented Feb 2 at 14:45

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As the tmux interface is shown as part of the terminal's contents, there is no way for it to bypass the usual constraints of a terminal display – it's always going to be a strict grid with exactly the same character width and height in every line, whether it happens to be the tmux status line or something else. In short, the bar will always be one-line-tall and that's that.

Your best option is to make it less distracting by tweaking the colors and layout, e.g. dimming down the orange highlight or removing the one-space padding around the number, or even setting the background to "none" to make it transparent (which I'm not sure if tmux can do, but it ought to be able to).

Since you apparently have a very custom config installed, you'll need to find where that's done, but ordinarily it would be window-status-current-format and/or window-status-current-style in the tmux config.

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