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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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Programmatically open multiple windows as byobu windows

I need to execute several bash scripts in background with a screen devoted to each script within byobu session. So how to invoke a byobu window for each script like: $byobu-multiple script1.bash script2.bash ...
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Is there some way to prevent a byobu terminal from timing out?

The ssh session in my byobu terminal is timing out from inactivity if left open for long. Is there some way to keep the keep the terminal alive because it prevents me from seeing the output to the screen in long running sessions. I am using byobu on…
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Script to start command in byobu tab

I have used screen to start a server process, to witch I can later attach if needed and deatach again to carry on with other things. It worked fine but I have found byobu recently and I really love it. I want to use the same kind of scripts to run…
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tmux window won't resize, and persistant 80x24 client

Connected to my box via Putty.exe $ tmux list-clients /dev/pts/2: 1 [80x24 xterm-256color] (utf8) /dev/pts/9: 1 [94x30 linux] (utf8) $ tmux detach-client -t /dev/pts/2 the terminal flashes resizing the window…
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Error messages when trying to run byobu in solaris

I was able to successfully perform './configure --prefix=/my/path;make;make install' on the byobu source code. I have also installed tmux-1.8. But when I try running byobu or byobu-tmux I get lot of errors saying find is not able to access…
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Byobu status bar not showing updates in PuTTY since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS upgrade

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: the region highlighted in…
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How to disable the ESC as a meta key in iterm2?

I'm using vim mode on bash terminal and when I press ESC terminal should change from INSERT mode to NORMAL. The problem is that ESC is a meta key and terminal waits half a second to change the mode. Is there a way to disable the meta key or reduce…
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vim paste in byobu fails if origin file is not closed

I connect my server(centos 7) with putty, and run vim in byobu. Now I have 2 windows in byobu, and two files, a.py in window-1 and b.py in window-2. I tried copy some text from a.py to b.py, but ran into some problems. If I follow steps below, it…
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Byobu doesn't start

When I run the byobu command I get this message. "/usr/bin/byobu-select-session: 24: exec: /usr/lib/byobu/include/select-session.py: not found". I am a beginner with bash so I don't know how to access certain files and here I have no clue of what to…
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Save byobu-ctrl-a state

I'm a happy user of byobu, but each time a start a new session, I need to manually run byobu-ctrl-a emacs. I didn't find any way to set this as default behavior. Is it possible ?
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Byobu unable to attach to running tmux

I´m a happy user of byobu, but recently I noted that I cannot attach anymore to open sessions. With ps aux | grep tmux I can clearly see many tmux processes, but unfortunatly, when I try to attach with: tmux attach byobu attach I get no results…
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Console on windows-subsystem-for-linux slow when entering text

I'm using the windows-subsystem-for-linux console. Recently it sometimes pauses when typing text, the typed text appears after a few seconds. In the past it worked fine. I'm searching for what causes this and how I can fix it. I thought it might…
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What is this strange text in byobu's status bar?

The following appears as status bar in my byobu view: @ 9.3 〣_1-17739 0:bash* 1:bash- ▴420kb ▾193kb 3h20m 0.28 4x2.4GHz 11.7G19% user@hostname 2018-01-21 17:07:01 what…
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Why is Byobu is only registering some bind keys?

This is the contents of my keybindings.tmux file: This file works completely on a mac and I'm trying to get the same binding for my linux machine. # Add F12 to the prefix list # Clear the slate source…
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Window name byobu status bar

I have a question regarding the status bar in byobu. When I use byobu on my own computer the name of the current window is just the window number (starting from 0; looks like "0:" "1:", etc.). However, I installed byobu on a remote server (ssh) and…
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