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UTF-8 Characters in Byobu Screen Status Line

I'm running Byobu with Screen backend. I have a custom status script that wget's an RSS feed and shows the latest headline in it. If there are non-ASCII characters, they are not printed correctly. ...
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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 ...
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Lock a byobu session with password?

I used to leave my byobu sessions detached on a server. I want to lock the session to prevent other users (root account) accessing my session. Is this possible?
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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 ...
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Why is GNU screen / byobu leaving garbage text in the shell during a reverse search?

I recently starting using GNU screen via Byobu but I think the problem is related to screen. I first SSH into a server and then do a reverse search to run a commonly run command (dump a the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...