Questions tagged [byobu]

Byobu is a Japanese term for decorative, multi-panel screens that serve as folding room dividers. As an open source project, Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen and tmux. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager and tmux, such as toggle-able system status notifications.

Documentation:

• http://manpages.ubuntu.com/byobu

Looking for DEBs? Grab and install the latest from this PPA:

• https://launchpad.net/~byobu/+archive/ppa

  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F430BBA5
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:byobu/ppa
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install byobu
  

Looking for RPMs? Use these from our good friends at RHEL/CentOS/Fedora:

• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Byobu%20Window%20Manager

  su -c 'yum install byobu'
  

Not built for your Linux/Unix OS? Don't have root access on your server? Grab the latest tarball from here, and follow the instructions in the README:

• https://launchpad.net/byobu/+download

Download the source with:

bzr branch lp:byobu

Discuss in IRC at: irc.freenode.net #byobu

See screenshots and read announcements at:

• http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/search/label/Byobu

What does 'byobu' mean?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byobu

How do you pronounce "byobu"? Fumihito YOSHIDA says:

• http://people.canonical.com/~kirkland/byobu.wav