Tool Tip: Byob - Screen With Text UI
Screen (man) is very useful for running terminal sessions on remote computers that enable the user to disconnect and re-connect. Byobu (man), formerly also called screen-profiles, is a wrapper script for screen that adds status lines with useful info to screen and provides text UI for configuring it (byobu-config).
Screen allows you to have multiple "windows" (terminal sessions) opened at the same time and jump between them (C-a n). You can also display multiple windows if you split your screen.
Few screen/byobu tips (C-a means Contol-a):
Screen allows you to have multiple "windows" (terminal sessions) opened at the same time and jump between them (C-a n). You can also display multiple windows if you split your screen.
Few screen/byobu tips (C-a means Contol-a):
- Configuration
- Increase scroll history via "screen -h <num lines>" or "defscrollback <num lines>" in ~/.screenrc
- Detach from screen: C-a d
- Re-attach to screen: screen -rd
- Split vertically: C-a |
- Jump to the new split (or back): C-a tab
- Create new window in the split (=> shell): C-a c
- Remove all splits but the current one: C-a Q
- Next window: C-a n
- Pass "C-a" to the terminal running under screen: "C-a a"
- Help "C-a ?"
- Byobu: disable the Fn keys and only use the traditional screen commands: run byobu-config and select to use only them
- To access Bybou menu (config) type, instead of F9, C-a @