byobutmux
When I copy a selection from tmux with a window split, my screen fills up with garbage characters. Depending on the size of the selection, it could be a lot, or just one line. The following images demonstrate:
Then after hitting to make the selection:
Notice all the garbage characters on the right pane.
How do I get rid of this behavior?
Byobu 5.x has excellent support for tmux. New installations of Byobu 5.x and above will default to using tmux as the backend. Upgrades from older versions, however, will not automatically make that switch.
Still, you can manually run byobu with tmux by typing byobu-tmux. Similarly, you can manually choose to run with the screen backend by typing byobu-screen.
Running byobu will launch with your selected default backend. You can choose between tmux and screen by running byobu-select-backend.
kirkland@ubuntu:~$ byobu-select-backend
Select the byobu backend:
1. tmux
2. screen
Choose 1-2 [1]: 1
UPDATE: April 10, 2015
My current solution that does not depend on the use of shell or terminal is to use wmctrl from a script, and place full path to the script in .byoburc . Works with gnome-terminal, terminator, sakura - just about any termimal
Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
# Description: byobu always has string ") - byobu" in it's window title
# like user@hostname (192.168.0.2) - byobu
# So why not find windows with exact same string, and tell wmctrl to
# set the title for us ? That's all we do here
BYOBU_WINDOW=$( wmctrl -lx | awk '/) - byobu/ {print $1}' )
sleep 0.5
wmctrl -ir $BYOBU_WINDOW -N "MYTITLEHERE"
Original post
As far as gnome-terminal goes, you can set profile preferences to keep the initial title specified in the profile settings. Bellow is the screenshot of my byuobu with keep the initial title option, and with replace initial title option
As for Terminator, I'll download and see if same applies to it.
Best Answer
There is an option
set-clipboardthat will try to copy your selection to the x-clipboard with an escape sequence.gnome-terminal does not support this method of using the clipboard, which is the default terminal in Ubuntu.