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I'd like to bind Shift + ← and Shift + → to move my current screen left/right in the ordering of screens.

How can this be done?

These are the versions I'm using:

$ byobu -v
byobu version 2.68
Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06
Oliver Salzburg
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You can easily bind actions to shift-left and shift-right, using:

bindkey "^[[1;2D" prev
bindkey "^[[1;2C" next

Note that Byobu 5.12 uses these bindings by default for shift-left and shift-right.

And you can easily move a window from one window number to another by pressing:

ctrl-a :number [SOME_NUMBER]

However, GNU Screen does not support SOME_NUMBER to be a relative value, like +1 or -1. Rather, it must be an absolute window number, like "8" or "2".

Byobu also supports tmux as a backend, in addition to screen. Tmux does have support for this feature, and it can be accomplished by highlighting the window you want to move, and pressing Ctrl-Shift-F3 to move it left, and Ctrl-Shift-F4 to move it right.

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    Also with tmux, `ctrl-a : swap-window -t -1` to move one to the left, `+1` to move one to the right. See [this answer](https://superuser.com/a/552493/101005) for more info. – drevicko Aug 03 '20 at 03:21