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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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byobu won't start automatically

I am using the lovely byobu for a while, but I know it's "wrong" to lunch it inside .zshrc, since I get the message "sessions should be nested with care, unset $TMUX to force" I tried the classical way, that is, pressing F9 and I toggled on login…
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Error with left key in command line

Accessing through putty with putty-256color in terminal type (and UTF-8 Trasl). I press left or right key in the prompt line. It shows this rectangle: But If I press Ctrl or Shift and Left/Right it moves cursor OK. When I access through VNC it…
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On Byobu, how to refer to the directory of another split?

I love Byobu and hate the Midnight Commander (MC), especially because MC collides with Byobu's keybindings. But quite often I split a Byobu window vertically and wished I could simply copy a file from one split to the other as I can do with MC.…
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byobu (tmux) hangs on startup

Yesterday, I was happily using Byobu/tmux (byobu version 5.74, tmux 2.0) with zsh as shell on my machine. Starting from this morning on, every byobu session just hangs after a small time interval and does not accept any input anymore. I start the…
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How to bypass screen/byobu conflicts with zssh file transfers (rz/sz)

I've been trying out zssh's sz and rz because it seems like a quick/easy way to send files back and forth (local <-> remote) over ssh. The problem is that I use byobu (basically screen) on my remote server and this somehow conflicts with the sending…
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Using byobu and git post-receive hook

As part of my post-receive hook I checkout the HEAD of the repository and then run my start-up command. So when I do git push it works fine. Thing is, when i SSH into the box, I use byobu. Is there a way to get the post-receive hook to run my…
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Seeing previous terminal output of your remote server after detached from session.

So I'm currently sshing into a remote server and doing a job that takes a while. To monitor it I have to see the terminal output log that the program outputs. But when I detach it and come back to the server I only see the latest page of output. How…
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Why Tmux will not stop altering terminal title while the prompt is waiting a command?

I'm using Fish and byobu in Fedora with GNOME-Terminal. I didn't ask Fish to change the terminal title. cat ~/.config/byobu/profile.tmux source $BYOBU_PREFIX/share/byobu/profiles/tmux set -g status-right '#(gitmux -cfg…
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