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How do I change the default shell used in Byobu (tmux)?
I've become addicted to Byobu and I've recently shifted from bash to zsh; Now I want to combine the two, however I have a one initial pre-requisite:
I cannot make zsh the default shell for my user as ...
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How to use Byobu keybindings in a nested remote session?
I'm using Byobu (with Tmux, inside of gnome-terminal) and I have a problem with its keybindings (which I probably fail to understand).
I launch byobu, open a few windows then, from one of these ...
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How to make byobu start with byobu -u on login/startup?
How do I make byobu start with unicode support by default? If I have done byobu-enable how I can set this -u option?
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Byobu: open different tabs in different windows of the same session
Let's say I have a byobu session running with multiple tabs open. Then if I open a new terminal, and start byobu, it will take me into the same session. If I then switch byobu tabs in one terminal, ...
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Synchronize panes in byobu
anything similar to
tmux synchronize-panes on
in byobu with tmux as back-end??
I am a cluster admin and would love to use byobu rather than clusterssh which lets me do synchronous writes
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tmux equivalent for screen's vbell_msg
In screen you can customise the visual bell text.I need the same in byobu(backend tmux) in place of the default 'Activity in Window %n'.
I actually want it to be changed to 'wuff---%n---wuff'
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Name a Byobu session?
Is there a way to create identifiable Byobu sessions so that when I've got multiple sessions running, the byobu-select-session menu gives me a list of sessions I can recognize, as opposed to ...
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Can byobu (tmux) show a multiline status
With byobu-screen the default status line had two lines. With byobu-tmux however the default status line only has one line. I liked the seperate line with the list of windows, it let me see more than ...
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How do I make the F-keys work in byobu, for midnight commander (mc), htop, etc?
I use byobu with the tmux backend on my 12.04 server. I'd like to use the midnight commander shortcut keys with it, but the F keys don't work.
I've seen some posts on the issues here:
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How do I get ctrl-left / ctrl-right to jump a word again in byobu?
On my Ubuntu 11.10 machines running byobu 4.37 I can use the key combination ctrl-left / ctrl-right to jump a word at a time in the terminal. However, on my Ubuntu 12.04 machines with byobu 5.17, this ...
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How to get byobu to launch tmux instead of screen?
The latest versions of byobu should apparently be configurable to run tmux instead of screen, but I haven't been able to.
Advice appreciated
