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.
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What does the ∠ byobu status notification mean?
I'm using byobu on Ubuntu 24.10, and have a question about an icon / status notification that appears and disappears: it looks like an L, but the vertical part is "bent forwards" I think it'...
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`Sessions should be nested with care. Unset $TMUX to force.` using Byobu and Fish load on boot
Since upgrading my server to Ubuntu 24.04 I keep being instantly logged out. When I connect with SSH, it just states [exited]. There seems to be no way of logging into my account anymore. It is a ...
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Ctrl+left/right on micro via SSH+byobu
Locally when opening micro text editor, Ctrl + left/right works normally (jump 1 word). But when running via SSH + byobu, Ctrl + left/right gives [1;5C] and [1;5D]. Ctrl + S and Ctrl + Q also didn't ...
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Some Byobu shortcuts not working when using the Secure Shell extension from a Chromebook
I'm using the Secure Shell Chrome extension to SSH from a Chromebook to a Linux workstation. When I launch byobu (with the tmux backend), most of its keyboard shortcuts work fine, but a notable ...
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Byobu (tmux backend) after copying text in scrollback mode automatically quits scrollback mode
To clarify, "automatically quits scrollback" mode means byobu goes into normal mode and jumps to the bottom, and I can't just go back to the point I previously scrolled up to. I am also ...
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SHIFT+F2 does not create a horizontal split in byobu in tmux mode (using Putty SSH client)
SHIFT+F2 does not create a horizontal split in byobu in tmux mode (using Putty client from Windows 7). SHIFT+F2 just gives me '~' in the terminal. Byobu installed on Debian 8.11. Using byobu version: ...
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How do I find what process is running in a particular GNU screen window?
Problem I need to find what process is running on a particular window in screen (in a reasonable amount of time). Scenario I need to use the Session Name and Window Title to find the process ...
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trouble with byobu custom status
I'm trying to add nVidia GPU utilization to my byobu-tmux status line. I've installed gpustat which returns ~$ gpustat myhost Mon Aug 19 17:26:51 2019 410.48 [0] GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ...
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How to equalize byobu vertical split screen size
Note: I may be leaning on an XY Problem; feel free to steer me to a more ideal approach. I want to keep an eye on multiple remote log files in a small-yet-legible font, not so much analyzing ...
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start python script in byobu session at startup
I would like to start a python script at startup inside a byobu/tmux session (and create the session if it doesn't exist), so I can attach to it later. I created a start_script.sh containing the ...
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Byobu terminal can't use tmux
I can't enable tmux feature on byobu terminal or on any terminal. I run echo $TERM and i get screen-256color When i run tmux i get this: sessions should be nested with care, unset $TMUX to force ...
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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 ...
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`byobu` window with `sudo su -` [closed]
Sorry for the cross-posting across the fora. I am not sure if my original post was in the correct forum. I am aware that what I would like to do is not safe... I would like to open a window in my ...
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Is there any fully Byobu-compatible terminal client for Windows?
I'm trying to use Byobu on a Linux server via SSH from Windows. I've tried with MobaXterm and putty, but some of the F key combinations simply don't work. In MobaXterm there is even a dedicated Byobu ...
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Unable to : "Open Terminal here" with byobu
In a specific directory, if I right click and select "Open Terminal". It just launches another instance of the terminal in the root location and not the location where I intended it to open. Is there ...
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