Byobu

[Mark]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Christopher Lemire
<christopher.lemire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I found some software hidden in Ubuntu that configures screen pretty
> nicely. If you are running Ubuntu 10.10, right click Applications,
> Edit Menu, go to Accessories and Tick Byobu Window Manager. Once
> you've got it running, F9 brings up the menu. I'm still looking
> through the scripts to see where the terminal window is launched, so I
> can get a wider default terminal to display all the info I've got it
> configured to.
>
> I've written three new posts up on my blog if anybodies interested.
>
> http://linuxinnovations.blogspot.com
>

Impressive.

Of course, you can get the exact same effect without Byobu by just
adding your xterm launcher to the panel and adding --geometry=WWxHH to
the launcher properties command pane to suit your needs.

Or you can go in and edit your preferred applications so all xterm
windows come up in your favorite geometry.  (Although I admit that I
can't remember off-hand how I did this, and the last time I looked I
couldn't find it, but it's not too hard to do.)

Personally, I took one look at Byobu and removed it from my menus - no
use for it.

Maybe I should be writing a blog about mundane things like this, too.  :-)

Mark