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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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Recording whole terminal screen using tee

I am trying to get help from someone, so I want to record my screen to be able to later review what happened. Formerly, I have used ssh with tee like ssh user@server | tee recfile and the recording works fine. Even when I use byobu on the server,…
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fortran: debugging emacs with gdb on byobu - unresponsive

This is my first time using gdb mode on emacs. As you can see in the minibuffer, M-n for next doesn't work. What might be the problem here? EDIT: this is definitely not due to byobu, as mentioned in the comments.
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Displaying current path in the window title with byobu on centos

I am used to displaying my current path in the linux terminal window title when using rxvt with something like: PS1="\[\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\][${LOGNAME}@${HOSTNAME}] > " from my .bashrc I can't find a way to do that in byobu (with tmux) on centos.…
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byobu-tmux initialize command option

I installed byobu(v5.60), tmux(v1.8). Then I found a difference with an old version, byobu(v5.27)tmux(v1.7)： The old version byobu-tmux start byobu server with command like(checked by top -c) tmux -2 -f /*****/share/byobu/profiles/tmuxrc new-session…
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get byobu to run custom notification out of current directory ($PWD)

any way to get byobu to run custom notification out of current directory ($PWD) of terminal I have tried but seems to always run from $HOME this particular command (terraform workspace show) has no options and only displays relevant output from that…
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Turn off separator between windows names in tmux+powerline

Does anyone know how to hide this separator in byobu/tmux+powerline?
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I need to create a bash script that will run byobu, then in the background continue running and do things

What I'm trying to do is basically this: start byobu in the foreground when the script runs have the rest of the script run in the background and use byobu cmdline syntax to pass commands and keystrokes to the byobu instance in the foreground. I…
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Use Ctrl-Alt combination as keybinding in byobu

I am currently using the bindings below to switch between windows in byobu bind-key -n C-h previous-window bind-key -n C-l next-window How can I use Ctrl-Alt instead of just Ctrl to switch windows?
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Byobu 5.133 does not start up on my mac after a recent upgrade

I'm not sure how to diagnose this issue further. I recently did a brew upgrade of a lot of stuff, one of which was byobu and it fails to even startup spitting out this as the error: ^[[?62;4c[exited] Obviously the upgrade could have installed a…
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Cannot run byobu because [root] does not own [/home/ubuntu]

I can't able to switch into byobu session. Its shows above error.
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How to start and access a byobu session on a VM through ansible playbook?

I am trying to start a named byobu session on a VM through ansible playbook using byobu commands. The session does start but in the background i.e the session and its all windows/tasks are being shown when I run _ps -aux_ command but when I try to…
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Byobu-tmux vi-copy doesn't work after system upgrade (KDE Neon)

I have in my ~/.byobu/.tmux.conf bind-key -t vi-copy 'v' begin-selection bind-key -t vi-copy 'y' copy-selection so…
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Byobu shows weird rectangle when trying to move left or right in bash

When I try to move left or right in bash while byobu is enabled it doesn't do that but instead it just shows a little rectangle in the middle and the screen resolution in the top right corner. I can only move left and right while pressing the shift…
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Open byobu window with multiple screens running one command each?

I want to run multiple commands in the same terminal window, where each command attaches to the terminal stdout. How can I do it with byobu? (or tmux)
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Why am seeing only limited options in my byobu?

I installed the latest version of byobu by building from the source. byobu version 5.111 Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06 But I am not able to use many of the options (like: new session, splits, etc) or see them listed in the config…
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