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Let's say I have a byobu session running with multiple tabs open. Then if I open a new terminal, and start byobu, it will take me into the same session. If I then switch byobu tabs in one terminal, the other terminal will also switch to the same tab.

Is it possible to have different tabs of the same byobu session open in different terminals?

qbi
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Alex
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Great question!

This isn't directly possible, due to the way Tmux works, from a client-server perspective.

Nonetheless, there is a viable workaround... Basically, you just need to have separate sessions. Byobu makes this easy and convenient through a couple of keybindings.

  • F2 creates new windows
  • Alt-Left and Alt-Right moves back and forth between them
  • Ctrl-F2 creates a vertical splits
  • Shift-F2 creates horizontal splits
  • Shift-Up, -Down, -Left, -Right, move around the splits
  • Ctrl-Shift-F2 creates a new session
  • Alt-Up and Alt-Down moves between sessions

The latter two should solve your problem!

Full disclosure: Author and maintainer of Byobu here

Dustin Kirkland
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Since this is the top hit on Google, I'll add a solution that works for the version of tmux I'm using:

byobu list-sessions

Notice the number they are prefixed with. To connect with a different "view" of an existing session, you just do:

byobu new-session -t <number>

See the discussion here:

dpb
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