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Byobu is a Japanese term for decorative, multi-panel screens that serve as folding room dividers. As an open source project, Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.

Byobu is a Japanese term for decorative, multi-panel screens that serve as folding room dividers. As an open source project, Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.

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Tmux new-session returns: "can't create socket"

I have killed a byobu session accidentally (kill -9 byobuSessionId), and now when I try to start another byobu command fails with "can't create socket". Also tmux new-session returns: "can't create socket" I have tried sudo service screen-cleanup…
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Exiting copy / scrollback mode upon detach in byobu / screen

I've discovered that if I go into "copy mode" or "scrollback mode" in a byobu screen, detach from it and leave it running, the buffer will fill up and eventually block the process I'm running in the screen. (Presumably because the process is…
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Automate Byobu window creation

I use Byobu on a Vagrant dev machine to run multiple things in one screen and to be able to suspend/restore the machine and continue where I left off the other day. There are times when I have to recreate the machine and setting up 8+ Byobu windows…
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disabling specific byobu/screen keybindings that conflict with vim keybindings

ctrl + a under byobu has either emacs mode or screen mode. However, I need keybindings like ctrl + a for vim's "increment value" method. How would I prevent byobu/screen from blocking certain keyboard shortcuts? Note: I get that the function…
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customizing terminal ssh shell

The other day I saw someone connected to an ssh shell with status bars on the bottom (Mac OS X Terminal) of the terminal. It has things such as upload rate, memory usage, time, current username, and some other stuff. I'd like to know how I can…
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Byobu creating new session on every connection

Every time I connect to my Ubuntu 17.10 machine with byobu-enable turned on, I get a new "session" rather than it reusing my existing sessions. On connect: Byobu sessions... 1. tmux: foo: 3 windows (created Sun Jan 28 10:23:59 2018) [204x53]…
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Byobu - How to disconnect from lxc-console

I am inside Byobu on ubuntu 12.04 and entered an lxc-console. Unfortunately, the escape sequence for lxc appears to be cntrl-a q. However this clashes with Byobu's which also uses cntrl-a sequence. I tried this questions answer of using cntrl-a a q,…
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Using byobu on KVM Guest via Serial Console

I am logged in to a KVM Guest (running Ubuntu 12.04 on Centos 6.6 host). I followed the instructions here Access pty login prompt in VM The problem is that the console fills the terminal window just fine when I connect with "virsh console " but if…
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krenew command not working : Permission Denied

I am using a Linux server to perform my simulations. The login and the file-system of the server are protected using kerberos. The file-system is supported using NFS. Since my simulations take a lot of time to run, my ssh sessions used to hang…
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Autocompletion, history and scrolling in Byobu

I am using an Ubuntu server with Byobu. For some reason, the tab key writes a tab instead of completing commands and paths. Top arrow writes ^[[A instead of the command history. Scrolling writes ^[[B. I'm wondering how to solve this: is this a byobu…
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byobu: How can I create a new session in an existing tmux group?

We are using byobu here in our embedded development team to share access to the programmers that are connected to our devices. That way all of our team have access to the device log files and so on. This worked quite well so far. Every member could…
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