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

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How to display the name of the program instead of sudo in byobu?

I'm using byobu when working on the shell. If I start a program the name of it is displayed in the status line. However when something is prefixed with sudo it just displays sudo (sudo tail -F /var/...
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Change keybinding Shift-F12 in byobu using tmux backend

I'm using byobu on my desktop and servers. To operate in nestet session I'm using Shift-F12, bun when I want to use e.g. htop (F-keys) I need to: add to ~/.byobu/keybindings.tmux the following: bind-...
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How to share byobu with multiple users?

The best way to learn and troubleshoot is to pair up with someone else on the internet via text based screensharing. Love the ergonomics of byobu for a single user at a single time. However when I ...
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Connect byobu from Mac El Capitan, Shift + F3 and Shift + F4 do not work

I use my Mac to connect to a remote Ubuntu server (Trusty 14.04) running byobu. Everthing works fine when I connect from the local Ubuntu installed on the Mac as a dual-boot OS. However when I connect ...
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The 'reboot required' character doesn't render with PuTTY and Ubuntu Mono

I have "Remote character set" to "UTF-8" and the font set to "Ubuntu Mono, 12-point". The Ubuntu logo character render correctly but not the "reboot required" character. Is there a way to fix this? ...
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How do I 'workon' a Python virtualenv in Byobu windows configuration?

I'm trying to configure Byobu that it will start with a few windows ready in my Python virtualenvwrapper project directory. The only thing that needs to be run is the command workon myvirtualenvname. ...
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Vim displays wrong colors in byobu

I want to use the theme provided by the gruvbox plugin, which works outside of byobu but not when I enter it. I have tried many different solutions including the ones shown in Vim in tmux display ...
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log everything from a byobu session

I am looking for a way how to preserve all console input and output of byobu sessions. I am aware of these questions: How to save scrollback history in byobu? how can I log the session with byobu ...
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`byobu` window with `sudo su -`

I'm aware that what I would like to do is not safe... I would like to open a window in my byobu session with the root prompt. (i.e. with sudo su -.) Once I get the root prompt, I would like to ...
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Avoid trailing whitespace when copy/pasting from bash/byobu terminal

I wrote a bash script that computes information and echoes it into my byobu terminal. I then select the whole thing with my mouse and paste it into a Gmail conversation after editing it a bit. ...
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byobu-tmux seems to have a memory leak, how can I find it?

As you can see this instance has been running for 5+weeks and is now using nearly 1GB of memory. $ ps auxww | grep tmux jrwren 9839 6.0 11.7 969508 943140 ? Ss Jun27 3201:33 tmux -u -2 -f ...
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byobu show pwd path in gnome terminal

I normally launch byobu as a custom command in my gnome terminal profile preferences: In this way it shows the information like this: But I would like to display the current path in the terminal's ...
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Byobu skeleton files?

I noticed that on first usage of byobu, the utility created the ~/.byobu directory and pre-populate it with various configuration files. Where do these files came from, though? I'd like to customize ...
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How to set up X11 forwarding in byobu inside a LXC container

I currently SSH into a LXC container running in a Ubuntu host machine. I have managed to set up X11 forwarding from the container to my local machine but when I start byobu (inside the container) the ...
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Byobu: kill warning

Short question: is there anyway to get Byobu to present warnings questions, perhaps in the form Are you sure you want to kill X? y/n when killing windows/panes/splits etc.?
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How can I implement Tilda functionality in byobu?

What I really like about tilda is the key binding allowing me to pop it on top of whatever i'm working on and then after I finish with my terminal commands make it run in the background. Is it ...
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switching users in byobu session

I launched a byobu session (tmux) and then tried to switch to a user called kommander su - kommander, it immediately prompted me with: [Oh My Zsh] Would you like to check for updates? Type Y to ...
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Unable to launch byobu with custom windows.NAME file

Apologies if the solution is obvious but I'm stumped! I want to launch byobu from within my Gnome 3 desktop environment on 12.04 but it's not working for me as yet. Here's what I have: created a ...
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16.04 server: Byobu doesn't respect TERM setting

I installed byobu with anaconda on server 16.04, things seems to work fine and I can connect from a MacOS machine. byobu --version byobu version 5.133 tmux 2.9 But even though $TERM is shown ...
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Byobu odd corruption in status bar

Anyone seen this before? Know how I get rid of it? The bit between the 18.04 and the 0:-. Looks like it reads |l|_1-30952, no clue what it is. If I exit byobu and restart it, it goes away. It ...
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When selecting a byobu session to resume it just creates a new one instead, how can I fix this?

Basically when I connect to the server using ssh I get the list of all sessions as I've used byobu-enable but it doesn't seem to be working properly. It is running with tmux as back-end. The server is ...
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Is there a way to tell byobu to use $HOME/.cache/byobu instead of /dev/shm/ even though I have /dev/shm available?

Is there a way to tell byobu to use $HOME/.cache/byobu instead of /dev/shm/ even though I have /dev/shm available? I can see that byobu is currently using /dev/shm and from what I can tell in /usr/...
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Is there a way to create a detached BYOBU session on system boot?

First off - Thank you Dustin for creating such an amazing wrapper to TMUX. I have used TMUX for years, but this really brings things to the next level. OK, I am using BYOBU in order to monitor and ...
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byobu in ubuntu server 14.xx not recognizing Ctrl + F# combinations

My Ctrl+F# keys are not registering in byobu. I installed openbox to check it on a gnome-terminal and it does work there but I prefer to not use a windows manager. I've checked my keyboard layout, ...
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How to make byobu automatically select last used session?

More often than not, I just want the last session I was using in byobu, and if I want a different one, the hotkeys make navigating to it relatively friction-free. So I'm wondering if there's a way to ...
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How to integrate byobu (tmux) and vim split switching?

In byobu you can move between splits with the SHIFT + ARROW key combination. I found this guide on making Vim work with tmux; but, I'm wondering how I can make it work with byobu key bindings or if ...
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Byobu automatically open windows on boot

I really enjoy using byobu and the launch at login feature. I'm trying to figure out the best way to have a byobu session automatically launch on system boot, with several windows running different ...
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Byobu - disable in Gnome Terminal

I like Byobu but I want use it in virtual console only (ctrl+alt+fx). How to disable Byobu in Gnome Terminal? Byobu is enabled via .profile file.
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How to change the default shell used in Byobu without changing user shell?

I've been using set -g default-shell /usr/bin/zsh set -g default-command /usr/bin/zsh in my ~/.byobu/.tmux.config for several years to set the shell that Byobu uses without changing (chsh) my login ...
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How do I integrate Byobu's copy-buffer with the X clipboard, with text containing quotes?

The same as this question, however I'm looking for an answer that would work with text containing quotes. How do I integrate Byobu's copy-buffer with the X clipboard?
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Byobu doesn't pick up my default shell

With the update to 14.10 my byobu setup broke. Apparently now I cannot exec during my simple shell configuration script, and I have instead to invoke the exec in the "login shell configuration" (I'm ...
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Byobu & spaceFM

How to get byobu working "open a terminal here" with spaceFm's F4 shortcut ? From now byobu open in ~ directory and not in the actual spaceFM dir. Thanks
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byobu how to create a second column for multiple screens

So I have up to 12 different screens in byobu. However, after the 12 screen I can no longer fit it in my terminal session. I have a monitor 1024x780 so the 13th screen and there after are just display ...
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Byobu doesn't source /etc/profile.d scripts

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and byobu. One of the scripts I have in /etc/profile.d will enable bash completion for kubectl and helm for all users. It works when the user logs in but not once they run ...
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Update PATH Variable in Byobu for root

I would like to add a directory to the $PATH variable for all users, including users who run byobu with sudo byobu. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on x86_64. The desired path is below. Note the ...
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Some Byobu shortcuts not working when using the Secure Shell extension from a Chromebook

While SSH-ing to a Linux workstation using the Secure Shell Chrome extension from my Chromebook, most of Byobu's keyboard shortcuts work fine (using tmux underneath). One notable exception is Alt+Up/...
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Scrolling in less in a byobu pane in terminal

When I run less file.txt (for example) in a terminal, I can use the mouse wheel to scroll through file.txt. When running less file.txt in a byobu pane, one of two things happens when I scroll with 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. While working with vim I often hit F1 by accident instead of ESC and my vim ...
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Byobu: Keybindings only respond in first tab; not responsive in new tabs or windows

I start Byobu and the first tab responds perfectly to all my keybindings. I can turn keybindings on and off and baby doves hatch from terminal outputs. ~ $ > byobu-keybindings Byobu keybindings: [...
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Show F-keys disabled or enabled on Status Bar?

How do I show status of "shift-F12" on status bar? This is useful when I have nested byobu sessions. I set this line in ~/.byobu/.tmux.conf and it only reflexes status of F12: set -g status-right "#{...
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How do I issue keyboard shortcuts like horizontal split in a nested Byobu session?

Ctrl+F2 and Shift+F2 create vertical and horizontal splits in Byobu. But when I ssh into another Byobu session, those key combinations affect the local Byobu only, not the remote one. Same goes for ...
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how to be attached to a another user Byobu session

I love byobu, and I want to be attached from my user in a remote server to an another user byobu session, already existing. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and this is my byobu version: $ byobu -v byobu ...
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