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When I was running Ubuntu 11.10, I had byobu configured to show different status messages at the bottom of the screen. This worked just fine while I was in PuTTY. I upgraded to 12.04 today, though, and now I have this:

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the region highlighted in red was where the status bar would have been. Here's what I have done so far:

  • Changed byobu's backend from tmux to screen
  • Deleted ~/.screenrc and ~/.byobu/
  • sudo dpkg-reconfigure byobu
  • uninstalled/reinstalled byobu

I'm kind of out of ideas here. It was really handy having this status bar, as I only access my Ubuntu box via PuTTY.

yPhil
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  • Incidentally, after upgrading my system (and the screen), it appears to have fixed itself. I'm wondering if it was a bug... –  Jul 25 '13 at 18:40

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if there is a "status.disable" file in your byobu config dir, remove it.

Or, in sh parlance :

rm $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status.disable

Also, there may be several tmux-x lines defined in the $BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR/status config file, try

SHIFT+F5

To cycle them.

yPhil
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I have the same problem, my custom status bar disappeared. I believe it's because the syntax of ~/.byobu/status has changed.

It used to be something like

arch=0
battery=0
cpu_count=0
cpu_freq=0
...

Now it's like

screen_upper_left="color"
screen_upper_right="color whoami hostname ip_address menu"
screen_lower_left="color logo distro release #arch"

I haven't verified that yet but I'll see if that fixes my problem...

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