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We've compiled a list of 5 free and paid alternatives to byobu. The primary competitors include tmux, GNU Screen. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between byobu and Wemux, mtm, abduco. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


tmux
Free Open Source

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a...

GNU Screen
Free Open Source

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several...

Wemux
Free Open Source

wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy

mtm
Free Open Source

Perhaps the smallest useful terminal multiplexer in the world.

abduco
Free Open Source

session {at,de}tach support Session management in a clean and simple way

Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.

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byobu Overview

Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical Small GNU Screen iconGNU Screen , for the Ubuntu server distribution. Byobu now includes an enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications for both the GNU Screen window manager and the more modern Small tmux icontmux terminal multiplexer, and works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions.

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