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Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen , for the Ubuntu server distribution.

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about byobu, and it has gotten 24 likes

byobu was added to AlternativeTo by halgrep on and this page was last updated .

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Wrapper around tmux or screen with more intuitive hotkeys

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Gist with byobu hotkeys https://gist.github.com/devhero/7b9a7281db0ac4ba683f

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What is byobu?

Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen icon GNU Screen , for the Ubuntu server distribution. Byobu now includes an enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications for both the GNU Screen window manager and the more modern tmux icon tmux terminal multiplexer, and works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions.

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