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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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How to terminate tmux session and processes it spawned

I noticed that i have a running process and I think it's because i initialized the process in byobu which is using tmux. ps aux | grep sidekiq 1000 13786 0.0 0.0 8108 900 pts/4 S+ 11:27 0:00 grep sidekiq I have a tmux session…
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Byobu with tmux, how to use F-Keys

I'm accessing a linux box with Byobu enabled (with tmux) and I don't seem to be able to use some F-Keys without being binded to Byobu. For example using F6 to sort on htop. I followed this advice, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I press Shift-F2…
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Is there a legend some place that describes all of these color-coded values at the bottom of byobu?

On my EC2 instance I am presented with a screen where the bottom looks like Some of the values seem pretty clear to me. Is there a legend available, or some place that explains this various color coded regions for byobu?
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Problem using Ctrl+Arrow keys in Vim when using Byobu with tmux

In Vim, I had set the Ctrl+Arrow keys to skip words. This works just fine when running Vim inside the gnome-terminal. However, when using byobu (tmux), it shows weird behavior : it deletes everything after the cursor. For reference, these are my…
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How does one include the session-name in status bar for byobu-tmux?

I'd like to include the session name of my current tmux session in the status bar. There's nothing in ~/.byobu/status that allows me to do this and including the tmux configuration directive #S in the tmux_left line doesn't work (for obvious…
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Byobu/screen constantly freezes in Putty

For a while now I've been using Byobu to manage screen sessions for me. However I've run into a strange issue: The session keeps locking. By locking I mean that I can't type anything, and only if I wait a few minuites does unlock and do everything…
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Connect to byobu screen session and execute command?

In a script I am building I'm experimenting with how to automate as much as possible. One of the more interesting challenges is to connect to a byobu screen session and execute a command. So I started in the obvious place, looking on how many screen…
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Monitor exit code in tmux

Is there a way to update tmux window attributes based on command exit status? Similar to activity monitoring, I would like the title to change color when a command exits, say, green for success and red for failure. I've hacked something together…
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Nested ssh session inside screen has no color

I am attempting to keep a nested ssh session inside of a byobu/screen window, which I also connect to over SSH with Putty on Windows. However the nested SSH session has no color. Here's what I'm talking about: On the left you have byobu connected…
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byobu configuration menu escape / exit always closes the tab

I've been using byobu for ~4 years at this point and I do not remember this behavior before. If I press F1 (this always happens by accident actually, with the exception of initial setup I never want to see this menu again) which brings up the byobu…
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tmux consuming 100% of cpu

I've been running byobu for a while now, and in the last few hours it has started to consume 30-100% of the CPU on the core it's running on. This a noticeable delay when entering text, or switching windows. It does not appear to be an issue with…
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Byobu creates infinite spawn of "byobu-status -> tmux" children under tmux

When I launch Byobu, my System Monitor shows a new tmux process with a continuously growing set of byobu-status -> tmux children eating-up all my memory... -> tmux -> byobu-status -> tmux -> byobu-status -> tmux -> byobu-status …
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How to comment in a windows.tmux file

My ~/.byobu/windows.tmux file is getting a bit complex and I would like to document it with comments. How to insert comments in Byobu's windows.tmux file? Using # as seen below results in a unknown command: # error message. # Start monitors for each…
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byobu configuration menu is missing options

I've used byobu on servers in the past (with byobu version 3.4) but I recently installed CentOS 6.2 and installed byobu 5.15 from the tarball. Most byobu-config menus have options to change background/foreground color, change keybinding set, default…
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