tpm not downloading additional plugins from tmux.conf.local

[Clumsy-Coder]

TPM doesn't seem to download tmux plugins when their defined in tmux.conf.local

commands run

rm -rf ~/.local/share/tmux ~/.config/tmux ~/.config/oh-my-tmux
git clone https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux.git ~/.config/oh-my-tmux
mkdir -p ~/.config/tmux
ln -s ~/.config/oh-my-tmux/.tmux.conf ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
cp ~/dotfiles/tools/tmux/tmux.conf ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf.local
tmux

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~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf.local

source-file ~/dotifles/tools/tmux/plugins.tmux.conf

~/dotifles/tools/tmux/plugins.tmux.conf

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-sensible'

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ls -lah ~/.config/tmux

drwxr-xr-x   5 umar  staff   160B 12 Sep 09:11 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 umar  staff   704B 12 Sep 09:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x   4 umar  staff   128B 12 Sep 09:11 plugins
lrwxr-xr-x   1 umar  staff    41B 12 Sep 09:11 tmux.conf -> /Users/umar/.config/oh-my-tmux/.tmux.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 umar  staff    76B 12 Sep 09:11 tmux.conf.local

ls -lah ~/.config/tmux/plugins

total 8
drwxr-xr-x   4 umar  staff   128B 11 Sep 10:30 .
drwxr-xr-x   6 umar  staff   192B 11 Sep 10:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x  18 umar  staff   576B 11 Sep 10:30 tpm
-rw-r--r--   1 umar  staff    70B 11 Sep 10:30 tpm_log.txt

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Not sure what am I missing

[gpakosz]

Hello @Clumsy-Coder,

Oh my tmux! doesn't support sourcing yet another configuration file from the .local customization file.

[gpakosz]

source-file [-Fnqv] path ...
              (alias: source)
        Execute commands from one or more files specified by path (which may be glob(7) patterns).  If -F is present, then path is expanded as a format.  If -q is given, no error will be returned if path
        does not exist.  With -n, the file is parsed but no commands are executed.  -v shows the parsed commands and line numbers if possible.

It's not trivial to support glob patterns in path, as well as the different options.

[atrestis]

Hello, I got the same issue, my plugins definition (for installation) is under user customizations section, however whenever I try to update/install new plugins I get the error of: "GitHub doesn't seem to be reachable, skipping installing and/or updating tpm and plugins...".

My tmux.conf.local is a symbolic link to my dotfiles configuration, although I don't see how this would be a problem.

Can anyone suggest any hints on how to resolve this?
Cheers

[augustobmoura]

Hello, I got the same issue, my plugins definition (for installation) is under user customizations section, however whenever I try to update/install new plugins I get the error of: "GitHub doesn't seem to be reachable, skipping installing and/or updating tpm and plugins...".

My tmux.conf.local is a symbolic link to my dotfiles configuration, although I don't see how this would be a problem.

Can anyone suggest any hints on how to resolve this? Cheers

This is definitely a problem, I have a similar setup, where .tmux.conf.local and tmux-fingers wasn't working at all. I fixed it by copying the file instead of linking it. A hard link would probably also make it work

[gpakosz]

I fixed it by copying the file instead of linking it. A hard link would probably also make it work

This is unrelated to this issue.

Oh my tmux doesn't support having its .local customization file source more files.
As I mentioned in my initial comments, this is not trivial to solve.

[gpakosz]

Can you please give the gh-671 branch a try?

This is supposed to support elaborated configurations like

~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf.local

source ~/dotifles/tools/tmux/plugins.tmux.conf

~/dotifles/tools/tmux/plugins.tmux.conf

set -g @plugin foo
set -g @plugin bar

%if "#{==:#{host},hostname1}"
source -qF '#{d:current_file}/hostname1-plugins.tmux.conf'
%endif

~/dotifles/tools/tmux/hostname1-plugins.tmux.conf

set -g @plugin baz

[gpakosz]

Oh my tmux! now supports

%if "#{==:#{host},myhost}"
set -g @plugin foo
%else
set -g @plugin bar
%endif

Which stock TPM can't do 🙃

[gpakosz]

Hello @Clumsy-Coder 👋

Are you still following this issue by chance?

[Clumsy-Coder]

@gpakosz I'm still following this issue.

[gpakosz]

@Clumsy-Coder Cool! Please tell me if the gh-671 branch works for you 🙏

[Clumsy-Coder]

@gpakosz I tried the branch. It works. I tested with the following steps

1. Remove tmux folders

rm -rfv ~/.config/oh-my-tmux ~/.config/tmux ~/dotfiles/tools/tmux/

2. create directory

mkdir -p ~/.config/tmux ~/dotfiles/tools/tmux/

3. clone repo

git clone --branch gh-671 https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux.git ~/.config/oh-my-tmux

4. symlink oh-my-tmux config file

ln -sf ~/.config/oh-my-tmux/.tmux.conf ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf

5. add the plugin in ~/dotfiles/tools/tmux/plugin.tmux.conf. Using plugin tmux-menus

echo "set -g @plugin 'jaclu/tmux-menus'" > ~/dotfiles/tools/tmux/plugin.tmux.conf

6. source the plugin.tmux.conf in ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf.local

echo "source ~/dotfiles/tools/tmux/plugin.tmux.conf" > ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf.local

7. open tmux

tmux

8. run installed plugin. tmux command prefix + \

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NOTE: I tested it in a VM using vagrant and virtualbox as the VM runner. I used ubuntu-22.04 as the OS

NOTE: needs more testing. I had some weird behavior where I follow the steps mentioned above, and it doesn't work. Once I kill the tmux server and open a new tmux session, it works. This happens sometimes

NOTE: needs more testing. I had some weird behavior where I follow the steps mentioned above, and it works. I kill the tmux server and open a new tmux session, it would uninstall the plugins. This happens rarely, not sure why or how

installing.plugin.via.oh-my-tmux.and.tpm.webm

[gpakosz]

@Clumsy-Coder Thank you for the test

I will have a look

[gpakosz]

I can't reproduce the fact that plugins get uninstalled

Are you sure you don't have other configuration files around?

[gpakosz]

In fact I can reproduce with vagrant

[gpakosz]

I believe it happens when exiting and the background job that installs tmux plugins hasn't finished yet

[gpakosz]

I think I was able to fix the discovery of the plugins that would sometimes return nothing, causing uninstallation

I pushed another commit to the branch

[Clumsy-Coder]

@gpakosz I tried it again with steps mentioned earlier. It works great!