In a former article i’ve show how to use Screen and Byobu, in short Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells) while Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen.
At launch, byobu-screen simply displays the normal GNU Screen status bar instead of the byobu status bar. It shows the proper byobu status bar only if I go into "Toggle status notifications" and hit apply (this then persists until the screen is terminated).
byobu-tmux works fine.
What's going on here?
Is there a way to create identifiable Byobu sessions so that when I've got multiple sessions running, the byobu-select-session menu gives me a list of sessions I can recognize, as opposed to non-descript tmux port numbers?
In an ideal world, it would be great to be able to both start a session giving it a name and to modify such a session to change a name if it's already running?
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
-> tmux
-> ...
-> ...
-> ...
...
...
...
This continues with memory growing every second, and I can't find where the is
With byobu-screen the default status line had two lines. With byobu-tmux however the default status line only has one line. I liked the seperate line with the list of windows, it let me see more than one window title in a smaller terminal window.
Is it possible to have a multi line status while running on tmux?
I'm looking to switch from screen to tmux for my terminal multiplexing needs, but there's a feature of screen that I need to replicate in tmux: the -X option, which allows one to run arbitrary screen commands inside an existing screen session.
I would like to know if there is a way to get tmux to behave like screen -D -R so I could say, have the command as a default command in Putty.
These screen switches would force detach of an existing screen session for my user (even if it was still active and logged-in somewhere else) and reattach it to the current session.
Overview of UTF8 screen re-attachment issues.
Problem:
Creating a screen that uses UTF8 works perfectly until re-attaching said screen session.
Steps:
ssh remothost
screen -U -S ttytter
[detach screen]
[exit ssh]
xterm -class 'xterm-ttytter' -geometry 175x20 \
-title 'ttytter' -e ssh -t remotehost "screen -dU -r ttytter"
Details
I am a really big fan of ttytter and have been using it for
Sharing Terminal Sessions With Tmux And Screen
tmux and GNU Screen
are well-known utilities which allow multiplexing of virtual consoles.
Using either, it is possible to start a session, detach, move to a
different machine and resume the session in uninterrupted progress.
It's also possible to use these tools to share a single session between
more than one user at the same time.
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