name new byobu sessions, only select byobu sessions

Thanks for the question. I have converted this to a bug report.

I think it would be a good idea to name byobu sessions accordingly, and only select against byobu-named sessions. This would allow byobu to run beside screen a little cleaner. Committing a fix to this effect now.

As for the @reboot cronjob, this is working just fine for me in my user's crontab:

@reboot byobu -d -m top

When I rebooted, and logged in (with byobu set to auto launch), I launched directly into a byobu session running 'top'.

Dustin

Now how's that for service, hadn't even had chance to go home and open some of the byobu-* shell scripts and see if there's any changes I could make :)

As I said, I'd prefer it if I could run irssi outsibe of byobu, byobu is a nice way of managing windows now I've figured out how it works but it's preferable to be able to keep IRC visible as well as the command line which wouldn't be possible with irssi in a byobu window. How do I pick up these changes on a 10.04 system? Is there a byobu PPA where I'll be able to get this patched version once it's released?

I aim to please ;-)

I keep ppa:byobu/ppa up to date for Lucid (and other releases) at each
byobu release. I'll drop a new version today or tomorrow with these
fixes. You're welcome to track that PPA (many people do). It's
pretty stable.

Dustin

Thanks, have added that PPA and picked up one update already although I assume it's not the fix related to this as it's not "Fix Released" yet.

Right, let me solidify this release just a bit....

Package: byobu
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 3.8-0ubuntu1~ppa4

Hi, I have the version posted above on my (previously Lucid, now Maverick) system and this behaviour seems to been reverted? When I try and connect to this system, I get the old menu where I'm asked to choose between a byobu session and my irssi session. Was this intentional? :)

Erg, yeah, it was sort of intentional, trying to fix Bug #630673.

Seems I can't make both camps happy.

Some people want to see all sessions (in particular, the ones that they name). Others don't want to see some sessions.

What if byobu supported "hiding" of sessions by naming them in a particular way? Perhaps with a leading "." period.

You could, for instance:

screen -S .irssi

And I could have byobu filter these out, and document it accordingly in the manpage.

Would that suffice?

I don't see why not. The main problem which caused me to post this bug hasn't reappeared (way back when I started this, if I had my irssi session open with screen but no byobu session open, then byobu would attach me to irssi when I SSHed in) so if this change was intentional then I can live with it, the current behaviour isn't stopping me from getting a command line like the original problem was.

If it's easy to support hiding of sessions (leading period seems sensible to me as it's a long-standing Unix/Linux convention) then I'd be interested to see if that manages to please both types of users, however that depends on how much you feel like adding it. Having read the other bug report I can see why in certain circumstances this behaviour might be preferable and as I said, it's not a total regression for me as it's not stopping me getting to a command line as it was originally.

I'll reopen this bug and support "hiding" sessions from byobu by prepending a "." on the name. Thanks!

Fix committed. Will be in 3.20.

This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 3.20-0ubuntu1

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byobu (3.20-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * usr/lib/byobu/network: drop unnecessary unit=kbps
  * usr/bin/byobu: allow for -xS or the like, LP: #684926
  * usr/bin/byobu-select-session, usr/share/man/man1/byobu.1,
    usr/share/man/man1/byobu-select-session.1: support "hiding"
    sessions, by prepending a "." to the session name, LP: #599334
  * usr/share/man/man1/byobu-launcher.1: update documentation
  * usr/bin/byobu-launcher-install, usr/share/man/man1/byobu-launcher-
    install.1, usr/share/man/man1/byobu-launcher-uninstall.1,
    usr/share/man/man1/Makefile.am:
    - add an option for -n|--no-logout to byobu-launcher-install,
      document changes in new manpages, LP: #604931
  * usr/lib/byobu/cpu_temp: find the temp monitor, LP: #676080
  * usr/lib/byobu/battery, usr/share/man/man1/byobu.1: allow for
    overriding detected BATTERY, LP: #693560
  * usr/lib/byobu/cpu_temp: test that file exists, is readable, and has
    size > 0, LP: #696071
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:05:13 -0600

I just tried this version of byobu on a system and it seems to work fine, my .irssi screen session (started @reboot) is ignored by byobu and I get dropped straight into the "normal" byobu shell with my normal windows, .irssi is ignored. Thanks Dustin!

Great! Thanks for sticking with me on this one, Gavin ;-)