Tmux not using my Powerline characters

Question

I have been trying to update tmux and add Powerline character support in it. I am currently using oh-my-zsh with 'agnoster' theme and powerline characters and prompt are getting displayed as they should but when i start tmux session, those character on prompt disappears and _ is replaced with them.What can i do to rectify it.

My tmux.conf

Using ubuntu 16.04
Output of echo $TERM is screen-256color.
Not using tmux-powerline as it's no longer maintained.
I have also tried reinstalling Powerline.

Is there anything link i can look to? – Aayush Sharma Jul 11 '17 at 11:27 — Aayush Sharma, Jul 11 '17 at 11:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '17 at 11:50

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Instead of source "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf" you should use run 'powerline-config tmux setup', which should do all the automagic for you without explicily naming paths. You can give it a try by simply executing it in your shell after starting tmux.

answered Jul 09 '17 at 11:50

user2722968

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after executing it in shell my status line has changed(like magic :D ) but prompt is still same and i have changed that line too and re run a source-file on `tmux.conf` – Aayush Sharma Jul 09 '17 at 12:33
Are you on a utf-8 locale? Check `locale` – user2722968 Jul 09 '17 at 12:34
`LANG=en_US.UTF-8` `LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8` – Aayush Sharma Jul 09 '17 at 12:41
and now when i run `powerline-config tmux setup` in shell, `unknown command` is displayed now – Aayush Sharma Jul 09 '17 at 12:53
Well, then tmux does mess with your environment, doesn't it? Do you start tmux with `ZSH_TMUX_AUTOSTART` and `ZSH_TMUX_AUTOCONNECT` in `.zshrc` ? That should work – user2722968 Jul 09 '17 at 13:00
I don't have these variable in zshrc, should i have it. – Aayush Sharma Jul 09 '17 at 13:11

Tmux not using my Powerline characters

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