byobu hides screen command error output

Bug #839783 reported by Scott Moser
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
byobu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Dustin Kirkland 

Bug Description

byobu hides the screen output of errors.

I just lost 10 minutes of my life trying to re-bind escape key in byobu.
Ie,
 * start byobu
 * run: byobu-ctrl-a screen
 * type: ctrl-a :
 * type (at the ':' prompt): escape asdf
 * be confused as screen did not show you any error

 * Ctrl-a

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: byobu 4.32-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-server 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 2 13:44:27 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ScreenRC:

SourcePackage: byobu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :
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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 839783] Re: byobu hides screen command error output

So this is unfortunately a side effect of being able to scroll back
and forth through scrollback by repeatedly pressing alt-pageup and
alt-pagedown. That works by setting: msgwait 0 and msgminwait 0.

Changed in byobu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in byobu (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
assignee: nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package byobu - 4.34-0ubuntu1

---------------
byobu (4.34-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Theodore Campbell ]
  * usr/lib/byobu/.constants: LP: #846576
    - silence errors

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * usr/lib/byobu/.shutil: LP: #854262
    - fix regressed monochrome support
  * usr/bin/byobu-janitor, usr/share/byobu/status/status:
    - proper fix for ec2 by default in cloud instances
  * usr/bin/byobu-select-session: LP: #855795
    - fix broken select-session support; screen -ls exits 1
  * usr/share/byobu/keybindings/f-keys: LP: #839783
    - Disable screen messages while entering and scrolling around in
      copy/scrollback mode, but re-enable them afterward; print a
      message about Byobu scrollback mode to "eat" the unnecessary
      and misleading screen messages when using alt-pgup and alt-pgdown
  * usr/bin/byobu-launch, usr/bin/byobu-launcher-install: LP: #855002
    - ensure that .profile is not sourced more than once
    - ensure that disabled auto launch is respected, too, and does not
      double-source profile
    - handle both system-wide autolaunch, and per-user autolaunch
  * README: LP: #854868
    - document automake steps
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:26:43 -0700

Changed in byobu (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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