Enrico Rubboli

While I was updating my ubuntu I’ve accidentaly discovered this interesting tool, byobu, the name is pretty strange, its japanese and the word means “decorative multi-panel screens that serve as folding room dividers”. It works upon screen adding some very interesting features, a nice toggle-able skinnable status notification area that can display some interesting info, and a Fn key approach to the windows management (es: F2 new win, F3 prev win, F4 next win and so on). This is how it looks like:

If you want to open byobu everytime you open screen you can just run:

$ echo alias screen=’byobu’ >>~/.bash_aliases

and restart the shell.