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Asked: 2026-06-10T07:51:10+00:00

I need to understand a fundamental concept about terminal multiplexers yet I can’t seem

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I need to understand a fundamental concept about terminal multiplexers yet I can’t seem to find the answer.

As I understand these programs need to be installed on server but not necessarily on clients. It’s not a problem with gnu-screen as it is already installed on most systems but it’s not the case for tmux and byobu. The problem is that I don’t have permission to install software on the server. Is there a way I can run byobu from my client to show statistics about the server I connect?

Also what exactly is the effect of ‘byobu-enable’ option?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think there is a misunderstanding here. When you connect to the server and run a command (byobu in this case), you are running the command on the server. Statistics reported are for the server. It’s possible to open a byobu session on your own desktop of course, but if you’re ssh’d into a machine, you’re very likely to be executing commands on that machine.

    byobu-enable sets byobu to launch automatically when you open a terminal. I don’t do this since you can have confusion if you have byobu running locally and on the remote end you have connected to, which causes problems when you try to interact with byobu itself.

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