Konsole / Yakuake + tmux

[edouard-lopez]

Hello,
Thanks for the work on this project, tinty is really a breath!

I recently switched from Linux Mint (Ubuntu-based) to Fedora (Redhat-based) and kept all my dotfiles as they were working fine on Mint.

My terminal config on Mint was: guake + fish + tmux and I was able to switch theme using tinty cycle.

Now on Fedora, guake is not integrating correctly with KDE desktop. As I saw support was recently added by @shanemcd on #28, I made the switch to yakuake, the KDE alternative. However, swithching theme doesn't work anymore. Here is a summary of the config I tried and their status

Terminal	Shell	Multiplexer	cycle theme status
yakuake	fish	-	✅
yakuake	fish	tmux	❌
yakuake	bash	tmux	❌
konsole	fish	-	✅
konsole	bash	-	✅
konsole	fish	tmux	❌
konsole	bash	tmux	❌
alacritty	bash	-	✅
alacritty	fish	-	✅
alacritty	fish	tmux	✅
guake	fish	tmux	✅

Version

• tinty 0.29.0
• Tmux 3.5a
• Fish 4.2.0
• Konsole 25.12.2
• Yakuake 25.12.2
• Alacritty 0.16.1

Tmux config

I set my shell for tmux with this config:

set-option -g default-shell "/usr/bin/fish"
set-option default-command fish # fish+tmux+ssh https://superuser.com/a/486577/174465

Output

I got no error, tinty seems happy about the situation :)

ed8@x1:~$ tinty cycle
Applying next theme in cycle: base16-ayu-mirage
ed8@x1:~$ tinty cycle
Applying next theme in cycle: base16-ayu-light
ed8@x1:~$

Question

Is this a known issue? I didn't find any mentions.

What can I provide to help debug further?

[JamyGolden]

Thanks for reporting this. There's an issue with our auto-issue-assign and I wasn't assigned so missed this when you created it.

Hmmm, try adding this to .tmux.conf:

set-option -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"
set-option -ga terminal-overrides ",xterm-256color:Tc"
set-option -ga terminal-overrides ",konsole-256color:Tc"

and echo $TERM. Then also echo $TERM in alacritty (through tmux) and can you paste the output here?

@shanemcd do you have any ideas what the issue could be?

[shanemcd]

@JamyGolden I looked into this. The root cause is that konsoleprofile works by sending an OSC 50 escape sequence (\033]50;...\a), and tmux intercepts and discards unrecognized OSC sequences. This is why it works without tmux but fails with it.

The fix has two parts:

1. tinty (diff): Added a new TINTY_REPO_PATH environment variable that exposes the template repository root path to hooks. This is needed so hooks can reference scripts shipped with template repos without hardcoding paths.

2. tinted-terminal (diff): Added a scripts/konsoleprofile.sh wrapper that detects tmux, temporarily enables allow-passthrough, wraps the escape sequence in a DCS passthrough, then restores the previous setting. Updated the Konsole hook in the README to use this script via $TINTY_REPO_PATH.

Tested with Konsole + tmux + tinty and confirmed it works. Does this approach seem reasonable? If so I'll open PRs.

Edit: I should note that I don't use Yakuake and don't have the cycles to figure out what's going on there.

[JamyGolden]

@shanemcd nice work. Yeah I suspected it was setting the ansi colours on tmux startup. @edouard-lopez can you try using the script with the updated hook on your side to make sure it's working correctly?