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Byobu is an enhancement for the terminal multiplexers GNU Screen or tmux that can be used to provide on screen notification or status as well as tabbed multi window management. It is aimed at providing a better user experience for terminal sessions when connecting to remote servers.

Version 1.0, under the name Screen Profiles, came out of discussions at the 2008 Ubuntu Developer Summit about how to simplify the on screen notification of an administrator connected to a server.

The project was renamed to Byobu for its 2.0 release, from the Japanese byōbu folding screen. Byobu 3.0 reworked the build system to use automake and allow for porting to other UNIX operating systems. Byobu 4.0 introduced screen splitting, reworked the status notification system, and added support for tmux profiles. The most significant change that Byobu 5.0 introduces is a shift from GNU Screen to tmux as the default backend.

Originally written for Ubuntu, it has since been ported to multiple other GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix-like operating systems.

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How can I resize pane in byobu in iTerm2 using keyshorts M-S-Up/Down/Left/Right?

I use byobu+tmux in iTerm2, I found that keyshorts for resizing panes is M-S-Up/Down/Left/Right but when I press then I just got character typed like this:
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How to copy from one split and paste in another in byobu?

So let's say I have two splits open in byobu, side by side. Furthermore, both splits have different files open in vim. I want to highlight text from one file in one split and copy it to a separate file in the other split. Any ideas? All the results…
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Integrate Vim-R-plugin with remote ssh-byobu session?

I am following the inspiring example here to setup Vim for R development. One difference is that I am running Vim and R on a remote server via ssh session. And this ssh starts byobu, which has tmux started automatically whenever I login. What I want…
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How to make byobu forward-word and backward-word with CTRL+arrow?

When used in uxterm zsh is jumping words when I press ctrl+left and ctrl+right. When used in plain unconfigured byobu (tmux backend) it is not. The cursor sits there doing nothing. I can however achieve that by using alt+b and alt+f, but I'd really…
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mouse selection lost by status update in byobu/tmux

I'm on Mac 10.7.5 iTerm2, ssh'ing into an Ubuntu machine running byobu 5.12 with tmux 1.7. The problem is that if I try to select text from the terminal with a mouse, it's gets cleared every time the time gets updated on the bottom right hand side…
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In Byobu select with the mouse within the same split screen only

In Byobu, with split screen, how is it possible to click with my mouse and select multiple lines within the same split screen only and not the whole terminal line? If I try to select text with my mouse, it is selecting the whole terminal line that…
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Make Byobu open new screens in home directory

I don't know if this is something that's changed in a recent version of byobu, but now when I create a new screen, the new screen is in the same directory as my current window. At first this wasn't too annoying, a simple "cd ~" would get me where I…
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How to change "activity in window" color in byobu

Given the following byobu (with tmux backend) status bar, how can the window activity notification colors be adjusted? Since they are currently the same as the "active" window, it is difficult to tell the difference.
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Byobu with screen backend: Connect copy buffer to system clipboard

I'm using Byobu with the screen backend. (Because the default tmux backend causes some bug in SSH.) When I use Byobu's copy feature to mark text with the keyboard and copy it into the buffer, I want that text to be copied to the system clipboard, so…
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How do I disable Byobu?

When I try to disable Byobu on my Mac, all I get is sed: -e: No such file or directory What is this error? I get the same message when I try to disable it from the menu.
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Byobu Shift + F2 not working on windows

Connecting to byobu in Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS on a Windows 10 system, when I type Shift+F2 to get a vertical split, nothing happens. Typing plain F2 works and opens a new window. Ctrl + F2 works too and splits vertically. I tried all the terminal…
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byobu renames windows in ssh session

I connect to a remote computer with ssh and start a byobu session on the remote machine. Whenever I change the directory in a byobu window, the window gets renamed to username@remote-pc:~/.../.../.... When I rename the window using F8 the name…
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byobu: how to change status-line location from 'bottom' to 'top'?

What is the idiomatic config to change the status line location from bottom to top? I have tried using set-window-option -g status-position top (using tmuxinator), but as soon as I include that line, all the byobu features are gone and I'm back to…
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byobu session names starting with underscore

I notice (via byobu ls or "Move focus among sessions" Alt-Up/Down) that there are some sessions that begin with underscore and I am sure I have not named the sessions like that :) They look as if they are linked to other sessions that do no start…
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Straightforward way of copying text from byobu to system clipboard?

I frequently want to copy snippets of command outputs to the web browser. Doing so is nice and simple in gnome-terminal (mouse-select, right-click, copy) but seems to be not so straightforwardly possible in byobu. The procedure for copying outlined…
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