How to style active pane border in Tmux?

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The problem is I somehow styled the active border so that it's bright orange and about 5px thick on all sides. I don't remember what command caused this.

I have no problem styling non-active borders using the line set -g pane-border-style fg=brightblack. But using the same format to style the active border with set -g pane-active-border-style fg=white yields no effect.

Maybe I'm trying to style the wrong thing? Is there some other pane property that overlaps the active pane?

I think you are looking for this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4889724/how-can-you-easily-tell-which-pane-in-tmux-is-focused — John Chang, Mar 31 '16 at 21:43
I found that question and tried the solution but it didn't work. I think the information is outdated for newer versions of Tmux. — Jpaji Rajnish, Mar 31 '16 at 21:53

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 01 '16 at 21:15

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It was actually the pane-active-border-bg property, but I had to restart tmux to apply the changes in this instance.

answered Apr 01 '16 at 21:15

Jpaji Rajnish

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As an alternative to restarting, you can make your changes effective using `` + `: source ~/.tmux.conf` – Matthias Braun Apr 17 '18 at 16:49
Just to clarify on the response, if I may, removing pane-active-border-bg property will make the border 1px thin – Javier PR Jan 08 '19 at 15:09

How to style active pane border in Tmux?

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