Byobu refuses to launch if running ssh from a screen session

This bug was introduced again in revision 722 ( http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kirkland/byobu/trunk/revision/722 ):

721 kirklan | # Make sure that we're not already in a screen session
672 kirklan | [ -z "$STY" ] || exit 0
722 kirklan | [ "$TERM" = "screen-bce" ] && exit 0

Hmm, so from my perspective, byobu doesn't work very well at all when called from within an existing screen session. Escape keys don't propagate.

I could, perhaps, add a --force or --nesting option to byobu that would allow this behavior, for those who really want to do this...

Would that be an acceptable compromise?

:-Dustin

That's perfectly acceptable to me, although where to put that (in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile for most users) will not be obvious to everyone.
If --force-nesting isn't passed, put a warning that an option is necessary for nesting, and maybe add a tip that people should use byobu-config to set up screen bindings with a different escape key on the remote host. Different escape keys are quite comfortable imho.

Agreed!

I'll take care of this.

:-Dustin

Thank you muchly.

So nesting byobu sessions is actually quite useful, so I'm dropping that check altogether.

Note that I find it useful to give each of the nested hosts a different escape sequence (eg ctrl-a, ctrl-b, etc).

This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 2.46-0ubuntu1

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byobu (2.46-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * byobu-janitor: seed the default color choices more effciently, also
    fixes some strange crashes on first run; default the colors to white
    on black
  * byobu-config, doc/help.txt: insert version number in byobu help menu,
    LP: #502119
  * bin/network: match interface a bit better for bridges, LP: #498722
  * bin/logo, bin/release: when looking at /etc/issue, grab the first
    line that starts with a real letter rather than control character,
    LP: #432751
  * byobu: deprecate code that prevented nested byobu sessions; this is
    is actually quite useful, although you should choose different
    escape sequences for each nested host, LP: #403988
  * bin/battery, bin/custom, bin/fan_speed, bin/temp, bin/temp_f: don't
    use ls programatically in for-loops, LP: #452405
  * bin/cpu_temp, bin/temp_f, bin/temp_c, byobu-config, byobu.1,
    profiles/common, rpm/byobu.spec, statusrc: merge temp_f and temp_c
    into a single cpu_temp script
  * profiles/common: adjust the formatting-only, and run-only-at-startup
    status scripts to run every 9,999,999 seconds (~115 days), minor
    performance improvement once a day, easier to identify such jobs;
    adjust cpu_count and mem_available to run more frequently, as
    cpu-hotplug and memory-ballooning are becoming more feasible,
    particularly in VMs
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:53:14 -0600