diff --git a/powerline/__init__.py b/powerline/__init__.py
index 1f7b71cc..bc023f61 100644
--- a/powerline/__init__.py
+++ b/powerline/__init__.py
@@ -8,13 +8,11 @@ import logging
 from powerline.colorscheme import Colorscheme
 from powerline.lib.config import ConfigLoader
 from powerline.lib.unicode import safe_unicode, FailedUnicode
+from powerline.config import DEFAULT_SYSTEM_CONFIG_DIR
 
 from threading import Lock, Event
 
 
-DEFAULT_SYSTEM_CONFIG_DIR = None
-
-
 def find_config_file(search_paths, config_file):
 	config_file += '.json'
 	for path in search_paths:
diff --git a/powerline/bindings/config.py b/powerline/bindings/config.py
index 83bab203..16722a98 100644
--- a/powerline/bindings/config.py
+++ b/powerline/bindings/config.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import os
 import subprocess
 import re
 
+from powerline.config import TMUX_CONFIG_DIRECTORY
+
 
 TmuxVersionInfo = namedtuple('TmuxVersionInfo', ('major', 'minor', 'suffix'))
 
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ CONFIG_PRIORITY = {
 
 def list_all_tmux_configs():
 	'''List all version-specific tmux configuration files'''
-	directory = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'tmux')
+	directory = TMUX_CONFIG_DIRECTORY
 	for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
 		dirs[:] = ()
 		for fname in files:
diff --git a/powerline/config.py b/powerline/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..53e530f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/powerline/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# vim:fileencoding=utf-8:noet
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals, print_function
+import os
+
+BINDINGS_DIRECTORY = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'bindings')
+TMUX_CONFIG_DIRECTORY = os.path.join(BINDINGS_DIRECTORY, 'tmux')
+DEFAULT_SYSTEM_CONFIG_DIR = None