A profile and configuration utilities for GNU Screen, previously called screen-profiles.
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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 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
...
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Colour bleeds right when writing a custom script in byobu
I am using byobu with tmux backend in Ubuntu 12.04.
I am trying write a custom script as shown at the manpage of byobu:
#!/bin/sh
printf "\005{= bw}%s\005{-}" "$(uname -r)"
When being run (using ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How start byobu with session splited horizontaly?
All is in the title. I can't get the right ~/.byobu/window file
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How to change the colour of embedded terminal in linux mint 12 to be able to use `ls` and `byobu`?
I'm using Linux Mint 12 and am having problems with the embedded terminal in gedit.
Using the default themes I'm unable to use 'ls' and 'byobu' as in part of their output foreground and background ...
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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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Is there a legend some place that describes all of these color-coded values at the bottom of bash/putty/ubuntu terminal?
Some of the values at the bottom of putty seem pretty clear to me.
Is there a legend some place that shows what each of these values means?
I suspect this is a feature of bash rather than putty, ...
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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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Install byobu (screen-profiles) on FreeBSD
I've got mostly Ubuntu servers, but have a need for 2 FreeBSD boxes. On all of the Ubuntu systems I've gotten extremely used to having Byobu on top of GNU Screen. I've been trying to figure out how to ...
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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 ...
