Nested byobu, re-assigning shortcuts
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I’m a byobu user for a long time, I love it for many reasons. But this is just a quick tip for extreme users like me. I mean people who use byobu for local consoles with remote byobu sessions running on top of SSH, for instance.
When prefix key combinations has to be sent to the remote host we have to press “Control + a + a” and finally the command that we want to send to the remote systems. This is not comfortable many times. So, I modified my configuration file for changing the prefix when I want to send remote commands to the nested byobu.
This is going to work this way:
Control + a
-
- as a prefix for local byobu session.
Control + b
- as a prefix for remote byobu session
Take a look on this screen capture where you can see byobu status bars stacked.
If you find useful the configuration that I described the only thing that you have to do is modify the configuration file: ~/.byobu/keybindings.tmux
unbind-key -n C-a set -g prefix C-a set -g prefix2 F12 unbind-key -n C-b bind-key -n C-b send-prefix
I hope this is useful as it is for me.
