byobu

custom-installed byobu does not find default-installed screen, tries to start tmux instead

Bug #911149 reported by quazgar
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Bug Description

byobu version: 5.1

When installing byobu to a custom PREFIX, it fails to recognize that there is screen installed on the machine, but not tmux. This seems to lead to setting the backend to tmux, which results in a failure to start:

line 155: exec: tmux: not found

Also changing $PREFIX/etc/byobu/backend does not seem to change anything, this file reads now

BYOBU_BACKEND="screen"

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attilaolah (attilaolah) wrote :

This is also the case with version 5.0 from Portage, on Gentoo.

Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)
summary: - custom-installed byobu does not find default-installed screenn, tries to
+ custom-installed byobu does not find default-installed screen, tries to
start tmux instead
Changed in byobu:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Thanks for the report. I just committed a fix to the automatic detection of the backend.

As for changing your setting, use the byobu-select-backend utility. This will write the file ~/.byobu/backend to your local configuration.

Changed in byobu:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)
Changed in byobu:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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