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Pierre
Asked: 2017-02-10 18:40:56 +0800 CST

How to display windows titles at the bottom of the screen using Byobu?

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I'm using Byobu with zsh. As you can see in the screenshot below, all the windows created have "-" as their title. My colleagues using bash can see the program being run (bash, python, vim, ssh, etc.). How can I achieve the same?

Thanks in advance!

A terminal with Byobu

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  1. Best Answer

    This behaviour appears to be by design when you're using the tmux back-end for byobu (default behaviour).

    When you run byobu-screen you will see this functionality out-of-the-box.

    If you look in the /usr/share/byobu/keybindings/f-keys.tmux file, you can see the line that binds the F2 key to open a new window:

    bind-key -n F2 new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}" \; rename-window "-"

    What do you know? The sneaky little fella renames the window to - as it's created.

    You can override this behaviour by adding a line to your ~/.byobu/.tmux.conf file:

    echo 'bind-key -n F2 new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"' >> ~/.byobu/.tmux.conf

    For some reason, this still doesn't work on the first window.

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