How do you detach a remote screen session in byobu (tmux)?

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Russell picture Russell · Jan 24, 2013 · Viewed 28.1k times · Source

I am currently in a byobu-tmux session and am ssh'ed into a screen session. How do I detach the remote screen session without detaching byobu-tmux session? Some things to note, I can't run byobu-config because I'm on osx and don't have python-newt (w/ snack) installed. And, I've run byobu-ctrl-a in Emacs mode, but that doesn't seem to allow me to ctrl-a d out of the remote screen session.

Answer

Dustin Kirkland picture Dustin Kirkland · Sep 26, 2013

You should be able to double-escape with Ctrl-a.

To send a detach message to the inner byobu-screen session, press:

Ctrl-a Ctrl-a d

Full disclosure: I am the author and maintainer of Byobu.

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