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I just followed this How to get byobu to launch tmux instead of screen? and updated byobu on my Ubuntu 11.04 64bit notebook.

When I was using the old version from Ubuntu repos, there always was this colorful status line. With the new version, I no longer see it. I selected tmux as the backend, but the result looks like a bare-bone screen.

Furthermore, F9 shows only 4 options:

  • Help
  • Toggle status notifications
  • Change escape sequence
  • Byobu currently does not launch at login (toggle on)

BTW, here is what I have in my $HOME/.byobu:

zperry@nb1:~/.byobu$ ls -l
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry   19 2012-05-27 23:06 backend
lrwxrwxrwx 1 zperry zperry   33 2012-05-28 00:08 byobu ->   /home/zperry/.local/share/byobu
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry   38 2012-05-27 23:43 color
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry    0 2012-05-27 22:59 disable-autolaunch
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry   43 2012-05-27 23:43 keybindings
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry   58 2012-05-27 23:05 keybindings.tmux
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry   40 2012-05-27 23:43 profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry   43 2012-05-27 23:43 profile.tmux
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry    0 2012-05-27 23:39 reload-required
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry 1802 2012-05-28 00:08 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry    0 2012-05-27 23:22 status.disable
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry 1368 2012-05-27 23:43 statusrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 zperry zperry    0 2012-05-27 23:43 windows

Any hints as to how I can recover the colourful status line, and these missing options?

Pang
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Zack Perry
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3 Answers3

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In you case, you have explicitly disabled your status line, as you can tell by the flag file status.disable. You can either remove this file or run byobu-quiet --undo.

It looks like you figured this out and answered your own question in the comment. As to your new question in your comment, we have disabled a few of the infrequently used and hard to maintain menu options, which includes the background/foreground color setting.

To set the foreground/background colors, you have two options now:

  • Press ctrl-shift-F5 to set it to a random 256-color combination
  • Or manually edit $HOME/.byobu/color.tmux

Full disclosure: I'm the author and maintainer of Byobu.

Dustin Kirkland
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I had the same issue, and the problem was solved by removing the screen hardstatus and caption (comment out those lines in ~/.screenrc). Byobu will then put its own hardstatus in their place.

Eliah Kagan
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Calvin Li
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If you resize the terminal real small and the status line info doesn't fit, the status line disappears. Resize the terminal larger again and the status comes back! It's a feature disguised as a bug ;-)

Jay Brunet
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