byobu-select-backend(1) byobu byobu-select-backend(1)
NAME
byobu-select-backend - select your default Byobu backend window manager
SYNOPSIS
byobu-select-backend [screen|tmux]
DESCRIPTION
byobu-select-backend is an application that lists the available Byobu
backends and allows you to select your default.
You can select one of either screen(1) or tmux(1) on the command line,
or giving no command line parameters, the utility will run interac-
tively.
This utility will only affect which backend is used by default when
simply running, byobu(1). Note that at any time, you can force the
backend of a particular session by running the helpers, byobu-screen(1)
or byobu-tmux(1).
FILES
~/.byobu/backend
SEE ALSO
byobu(1), byobu-screen(1), byobu-tmux(1), screen(1), tmux(1)
http://byobu.org
AUTHOR
This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirk-
land@byobu.org> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Per-
mission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and
the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version
3 published by the Free Software Foundation.
The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.
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