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I have a nice tmux status line, but I don't like how the bash/commands run flush along it. That is, if the screen is full, I'm typing things right above the status line.

I'd like a one line break above it, so that what I'm typing never "touches" the status line; is there any way to do this?

Example:

Let's say I have a very small terminal window that is two lines long

bash>$ (cursor)
1: bash*  2: bash-  3: vim-

How would I get a blank line to separate the status bar from the prompt, like:

bash>$ (cursor)

1: bash*  2: bash-  3: vim-
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  • Could you provide a screen shot? Commented Jan 29, 2013 at 8:21
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    @Sardathrion I added a visual indication of what I am talking about, does that help? :) Commented Jan 31, 2013 at 19:09
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    Powerline has some tmux bindings that you might find helpful. Commented Feb 1, 2013 at 7:41
  • select-layout should help, I think Commented Feb 23, 2013 at 7:43
  • Not a direct answer, but changing the background color of the status bar provides a good amount of visual distinction between the command line and the status bar. Commented Mar 27, 2014 at 15:53

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If you don't mind typing directly above the pane border (which you have to do anyway for any panel that doesn't touch the status line), you can force tmux to use a smaller window:

set force-height <single_window_height - 1>

However this only is a per-window setting and acts as maximum height limit hence it won't do what you want when you change your containing terminal dimesions.

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From https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1886#issuecomment-525382148

  set -Fg 'status-format[1]' '#{status-format[0]}'
  set -g 'status-format[0]' ''
  set -g status 2

This takes advantage of the multi-status bar support in tmux >= 2.9. It creates two status bars making the second your actual status bar and the first one a blank one to emulate white space

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