byobu Hard Status line scrolls the screen when updating

putty ubuntu-12.04
monsto picture monsto · May 24, 2012 · Viewed 15k times · Source

Wanting to give byobu a looksee as a screen 'update' of sorts. I start it with 

byobu

and instead of the status line sitting at the bottom of the screen, everytime it updates it pushes to an additional line underneath the previous one. before long, the screen (putty) is filled with status line echoes.

How do I stop this?

running puttytray v0.62 on win7 to ubuntu 12.04

Answer

phanku picture phanku · Jun 24, 2012

Putty defaults to a translation encoding of ISO-8859-1 where as Ubuntu sends out UTF-8 encoding.

Click on your server in the Load, save or delete a stored session window. Then click on the Load button.

Next, in the Category panel on the left click on: Window -> Translation

Change the drop down under "Received data assumed to be in which character set" to UTF-8.

Once you do that then click on Session in the top of the Category panel and then click on save in the stored sessions area.

I am not saying this is the correct fix. I am just telling you all what fixed it for me without having to do any crazy stuff to the server.

Cheers!

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