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I really like the Byobu terminal better than the default Gnome terminal that is installed with Ubuntu.

How can I make Byobu the default terminal - for example, when I hit control/alt-t I'd like to see Byobu instead of the default Gnome terminal?

Vector
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  1. Open Gnome Terminal
  2. Click on Edit -> Profile Preferences
  3. Go to Title and Command tab
  4. Check Run a custom command instead of my shell
  5. Set your Custom command to
    • /usr/bin/byobu

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Full disclosure: I'm the author and maintainer of Byobu.

Dustin Kirkland
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  • That worked fine. Meanwhile I had tried another suggestion - overwrite the cntrl/alt-t with Byobu. But it didn't work. A got the warning that I'm overwriting, said OK and the hotkey was mapped to Byobu. But it doesn't work. In fact, Byobu doesn't seem to work with any keyboard shotcuts when you define them in the keyboards config applet. Any clues? BTW-good job on Byobu. – Vector May 16 '13 at 21:20
  • @Dustin Kirkland, is it possible to actually assign this command to run Byobu itself? The lovely icon doesn't show using this method. – TenLeftFingers Jan 21 '16 at 01:48
  • @DustinKirkland is there any way to set this via the command-line? I'd like to add it to my setup scripts. – Robin Winslow Feb 23 '16 at 19:40
  • @RobinWinslow Not that I'm aware of. Sorry. – Dustin Kirkland Feb 24 '16 at 15:24