How to make screen bigger in byobu

Question

My new server install looks odd: enter image description here

is there anyway to resize it to use the whole terminal window?

score 140 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '14 at 13:42

This means that there is another ssh or terminal client, other than yourself, connected to this session, which has a smaller window size than yours.

You can detach all clients but yourself, using this Byobu hotkey:

Alt-F6

Or you can run the script /usr/lib/byobu/include/tmux-detach-all-but-current-client

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

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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An alternative to Alt-F6 is Prefix-Shift-D, where Prefix is your byobu escape command (typically Ctrl-a).

See more info here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22138211/how-do-i-disconnect-all-other-users-in-tmux.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community

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answered Jan 02 '17 at 05:33

ostrokach

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score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '16 at 23:05

Alt-F6 did not work for me. But I found that I was using tmux. To detach the other window use a combination of list-clients and detach-client:

% tmux list-clients
/dev/pts/1: 0 [64x160 xterm] (utf8)
/dev/pts/39: 0 [39x143 xterm] (utf8)
% tmux detach-client -t /dev/pts/39

Since the 64x160 is larger, I figured that was my window while the other client was the smaller one.

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 23 '15 at 09:07

Fantastic script! On OSX using byobu installed with Homebrew, it's (currently)

/usr/local/Cellar/byobu/5.92/lib/byobu/include/tmux-detach-all-but-current-client

presumably you'd modify the version number, but that's to give you an idea of how to find it

brew info byobu will tell you where byobu stores its lib etc files.

then just append the lib/byobu/include/tmux-detach-all-but-current-client to whatever that location is (in my case, /usr/local/Cellar/byobu/5.92/)

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 20 '20 at 18:54

I tried both the script (tmux-detach-all-but-current-client) and alt-F6. None of them worked. The terminal only went fullscreen for a couple of seconds, then it went back to small size (like in the image in the original post). I also checked users with w, it was only me logged in.

What ended up working for me, was simply disabling Byobu and enabling Byobu again, with a logout/in in between. Like so:

byobu-disable
exit
Login again
byobu-enable

Screen is back to normal.

score -2 · Answer 6 · edited Feb 19 '19 at 07:07

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I got it to work sending the command via vim Sepcial chars on your preference keys on iterm2 \033[17;3~

here is image that show the configuration

edited Feb 19 '19 at 07:07

Mureinik

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answered Feb 18 '19 at 19:38

Fernando Leal

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How to make screen bigger in byobu

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