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Right problem is I want use Byobu I really like it BUT I messed up and changed settings in F9 and choose the screen keybindings NOW I cant get back to the F9 settings to change it back and cant use any the F keys for Byobu, its very annoying and cant find a solution anyone care to help with the matter?

I tried remove Byobu and screen without any difference made I hunted online cant find an answer either

I'm running ubuntu server 10.4

Thank you in advance.

Jorge Castro
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JockMacFu
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  • Delete your ~/.byobu folder. This folder contains most of your keybindings, and config settings.

  • You can also launch byoby-config and change your configuration there (It does not allow changing screenbindings, only notification panel). This is the same binary which is launched on pressing F9

  • Lastly try reinstalling with a purge (apt-get purge byobu) and install it again (apt-get install byobu)

Nemo
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  • you my friend are a superstar i been scratching my head for hours n hours with this the only thing i didnt do was Delete the ~/.byobu folder. then reinstalled thank u soo much for ur help saved me lots hassle . – JockMacFu Feb 07 '12 at 11:56
  • [As any app should](https://askubuntu.com/a/829683/349837), on newer installations you will find Byobu's settings dir (`$BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR`) on `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/byobu` ([by default](https://superuser.com/a/425712/500826) `$HOME/.config`) instead of the old `$HOME/.byobu` ([bug 1315204](https://bugs.launchpad.net/byobu/+bug/1315204)). See also [`xdg-user-dirs-update`](https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/xdg-user-dirs-update.1.html) – Pablo Bianchi May 26 '22 at 21:19
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  • Delete /tmp/tmux-[UID] folder (where [UID] is your user id).
  • Delete ~/.tmux.config

Byobu uses tmux as its backend by default so the way it behaves might depend on tmux configuration. Even though tmux ls shows no sessions removing the /tmp/tmux-[UID] might help.

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