Status bar

The status bar is the strip along the bottom of fman's window. It shows one line of text at a time — the last message fman or a plugin had to say — and nothing else.

What it shows

There is a single message slot, left-aligned. Whatever wrote last wins.

When	Message
Startup	v1.7.8 ready. — or Updated to v1.7.8. Changelog after a version change, where Changelog is a clickable link
Copy or cut to the clipboard	Copying foo.txt, Cutting foo.txt and 3 other files, Copied C:\dir\foo.txt to the clipboard
Reloading plugins	Reloaded 2 plugins.
Saving in the text viewer	Saved, Saved as <path>, Could not save: <reason>
Auto-reload and tail toggles	Auto-reload on, Tail mode on, Auto-reload off, File changed on disk (not reloaded)
Any other viewer action	Reloaded from disk, Edit mode, Font size 12, Zoom 125%, Paused, the name of the file Next or Previous landed on
Viewer navigation	Advance only for same type: on, No further file to view
Long-running work	a "doing X…" line for as long as the work runs, then cleared
Nothing recent	Ready.

Messages either sit there until something replaces them, or carry a timeout after which the bar falls back to Ready. — 2 to 5 seconds for the routine ones, longer for hints. A message may contain links; they open in your browser.

Turning it off

Press Ctrl+Shift+P and run Toggle status bar. The bar disappears immediately and the panes grow into the row it occupied — the window keeps its size on screen. Running the command again brings it back, and the choice survives a restart.

Command name	Palette label	Platform	Default key
toggle_status_bar	Toggle status bar	all	none (palette only)

statusbar, hide status bar, message bar, bottom bar and chrome also find the row. They are hidden keywords, so it still reads Toggle status bar.

{ "keys": ["Ctrl+Alt+S"], "command": "toggle_status_bar" }

Notes

• Messages are not lost, just not drawn. fman and plugins keep posting them while the bar is hidden, and the latest one is there when you bring the bar back. Nothing errors, nothing queues up.
• Hiding it is not the same as hiding the title bar. The status bar is an ordinary part of the window, so switching it off has none of the frameless-window caveats — the window stays draggable and closable.
• The state survives a restart without a flash, applied before the window is first shown.
• The state is saved as status_bar_visible in %APPDATA%/fman/Local/Settings.json. The key is only written while the bar is hidden; a visible bar is the absence of the key.

Theming

A theme paints the bar through two tokens:

Token	What it paints
statusbar_bg_top	Top of the vertical background gradient
statusbar_bg_bottom	Bottom of it — falls back to statusbar_bg_top, so naming only the one token gives a flat bar

The text colour is bright_fg and the line above the bar is border; both are shared with the rest of the chrome. The font size is set in Theme.css under the .statusbar selector — 8pt by default, 11pt on macOS.