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Can the order of Byobu tabs be rearranged?

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00:00 Can The Order Of Byobu Tabs Be Rearranged?
00:17 Answer 1 Score 5
00:48 Accepted Answer Score 13
01:08 Answer 3 Score 1
01:26 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 13


Only with tmux backend:

Ctrl + Shift + F3 move window left

Ctrl + Shift + F4 move window right

You can only move one step at a time but the process is quite intuitive and fast.




ANSWER 2

Score 5


While Byobu doesn't have a hotkey for this, it's possible to move windows using the underlying Tmux functionality. See the manpage:

move-window [-ardk] [-s src-window] [-t dst-window] (alias: movew) This is similar to link-window, except the window at src-window is moved to dst-window. With -r, all windows in the session are renumbered in sequential order, respecting the base-index option.

Full disclosure: I'm the author and maintainer of Byobu.




ANSWER 3

Score 1


I have F12 set as the escape-sequence, and this works for me for setting the number of the current tab, to set the order of the tabs in Byobu:

  1. Press F12
  2. Press .
  3. Type the new number for the tab, and press ENTER