byobu: How to force close a window?

Question

One of the windows within my byobu session mysteriously stops receiving keystrokes. I can open new windows, but that particular window just hangs.

So now, every time I invoked byobu, I see 3 windows: 2 that I'm actually using, plus that 1 window that just sits there.

Is there a way to kill that wayward window? Preferably, just that one window. But if I need to clear the whole session, is also alright.

score 31 · Answer 1 · edited May 18 '14 at 16:24

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Ctrl-a + k kills the currently focused window after a y/n confirmation in screen/byobu.

edited May 18 '14 at 16:24

Kevin Panko

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answered May 18 '14 at 15:36

Forecaster

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score 23 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '14 at 08:29

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You can use Byobu's hotkey, Ctrl-F6 to force-kill windows or panes.

Full disclosure: I am the author and maintainer of Byobu.

answered Feb 07 '14 at 08:29

Dustin Kirkland

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 30 '15 at 20:32

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If you are using byobu in Emacs mode, meaning that Ctrl-a is mapped to "start of the line" you can use F12+k instead. F12 always works as the tmux/screen escape.

You will be prompted with a yes/no option from there.

answered Sep 30 '15 at 20:32

Joseph Casey

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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Finally, I resorted to this helpful answer on StackOverflow, i.e.:

screen -ls | grep "Detached" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -i screen -X -S {} quit

(Of course, I did it manually, screen -ls followed by screen -X -S $screen_session quit)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community

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answered Feb 19 '14 at 09:13

pepoluan

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byobu: How to force close a window?

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