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Questions tagged [byobu]

Byobu is an enhancement for tmux and GNU Screen that provides text-based notifications and tabbed window management. Use this tag for Byobu specific questions that are not generic (screen or tmux) issues.

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 resize split screen size in byobu

Currently, my byobu split screens look like this (i.e. they are of unequal size -- the rightmost split size is much smaller than the leftmost split size, for example): Is there a way to resize those splits? I want to make the rightmost split wider…
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Getting 256 colors to work with byobu

When I launch byobu, this always happens: $ echo $TERM screen even if $TERM evaluates to xterm-256color outside of byobu. How can I fix this?
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byobu - remove double bar

I love to use the byobu tool to manage multiple ssh sessions. It works extremely well in Ubuntu, but when I manually install it on Amazon Linux (and other distros) it often comes up with two bars rather than a single one as demonstrated in the…
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Byobu F1 help closes current window

Somehow when I press F1 Byobu opens its help page in the current window. After closing the help page the window is closed. I am running Arch Linux. While working with vim I often hit F1 by accident instead of ESC and my vim session is closed. This…
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