Tmux borders are drawn with dashed lines; how can I change them to continuous lines?

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Jason Coffin picture Jason Coffin · Mar 22, 2012 · Viewed 19.1k times · Source

I'm using Mac OS X Lion, Terminal.app and Tmux version 1.6. I get a dashed line as a window border instead of a continuous line that I get when I ssh into a Debian virtual machine on the same computer using the same terminal. How can I change the dashed line to a continuous line?

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Julian Maicher picture Julian Maicher · Mar 27, 2012

I found the origin of the problem. It's the font. I was using Monaco and it displays vertical dashes in a way that the vertical pane separator is dashed. With Menlo however it's solid.

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