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Byobu is an enhancement for tmux and GNU Screen that provides text-based notifications and tabbed window management.

Byobu

Quote from the Wikipedia article on Byobu (software):

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.

Byobu was previously called screen-profiles and was originally designed to provide enhancements to GNU Screen. Byobu 5.0 switched from GNU Screen to tmux as the default backend, which is supported since version 4.0.

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how to run multiple byobu sessions at once?

Currently I don't seem able to run multiple sessions of byobu. After the initial byobu instance, running on one terminal, when I run byobu in another terminal it always attaches to the first byobu session. Is there away to start independent byobu…
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How to split byobu screen?

On the byobu Wikipedia page there is a screenshot with the terminal screen: Can somebody explain to me what programs are used here? My guess - at the bottom - vim, top right - terminal, top left - I don't know. And how to make such a byobu…
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How to save scrollback history in byobu?

I've had an interesting terminal session in byobu, and I'd like to save the terminal output (commands and all) to a file - how can I do that? According to the byobu man page: Ctrl-a ~ - Save the current window's scrollback buffer This may indeed…
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How to re-enable function keys in byobu?

I was using byobu on Ubuntu 11.10 Server and I needed to hit a function key in an app, so I hit F9 to bring up the config menu and switched the keybinding set from "f-keys" to "screen-escape-keys". That worked, but now I can't re-enable all the…
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Can I use mouse click to focus on Byobu splits?

I know Byobu is a terminal multiplexer and mouse is not a priority, but I still would like to know if there is a way to focus on a split using mouse click instead of keyboard shortcuts. In negative case, it certainly would be a great feature.
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Is there any way to find something in byobu window?

Is there a way to find an expression (ctrl-f like command) inside a byobu window?
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How do I get a byobu session with a command to run on startup?

I am trying to get Byobu to startup with Ubuntu Server 12.04 when the server starts up. I've figured out how to do this with a screen session but I want it to be in Byobu with all the added features, not in screen. in start() within an init.d script…
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Ubuntu Server - using Byobu: Ctrl+F2 does not split screen in vertical

Ubuntu Server (17.10 and 16.04) using Byobu: Ctrl+F2 does not split screen in vertical Shift+F2 splits screen in horizontal and all other key shortcuts work fine, just Ctrl+F2 does not have any effect on Byobu screen
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I just don't get byobu's keybindings systems, or?

They just don't work. I don't even know where to begin, what information to even give here, etc. Can anyone help me make the default keybindings work? When I do Ctrl + a then Shift + /, it lists keybindings, which don't match what the config files…
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Remove everything from Byobu status bar

By default, the Byobu status bar contains tons of information about the distribution, updates, CPU, etc. I want to remove all of that. I want to only see the "tabs" of my open terminals (and the current terminal, of course). How to do?
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Byobu cache or restored duplicate sessions

Every time I quit Byobu accidentally, on the next start I find an extra session tab for each session called _{sessionname}-{id}: I find this really annoying since this was not happening in my previous machine with an old Ubuntu 14. I'm on Ubuntu…
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How to clear history in Byobu?

I've been trying to clear the history of a window in Byobu but I haven't been successful. Neither reset nor clear actually clear the history, you can still see it when you enter in scrollback mode. I'm guessing I should use tmux's clear-history…
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byobu: change background or marking for zoomed splits?

I usually work with several splits in a window and zoom in one of the splits to make use of the screen. And I also work with serveral windows at a time. So when I jump back and forth for a while, it is hard to find out which window that has a zoomed…
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byobu-tmux shows all white split borders, no indication of active split

In byobu (with tmux as backend) I accidentally pressed the Ctrl + Shift + F12, activating the Mondrian squares easter egg. I did close all splits opened by that "feature", but from then on, all existing windows and splits in byobu are not displayed…
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How do I modify the terminal title set by byobu?

While using byobu, my terminal tab's title is set to user@fqdn (IP) - byobu, which can be pretty long depending on the domain. How can I limit it to something shorter, like user@hostname, or better yet, let zsh set the title? I have tried setting…
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