Comment 3 for bug 586546

While not enabling enabling byobu by default means that:

 - users are very unlikely to discover it, and its many benefits,
 - there is no standard way status messages can be easily displayed on a server console,
 - it is impossible to detach from a session while leaving a program running,

enabling it does not seem to break anything but a scrollback habit and disabling it is as simple as selecting the menu and the right function. It will NOT:

 - break any form of server automation that I know of
 - render the server unuseable if a byobu version is buggy, as it will simply return the user to the regular console
 - prevent anyone from using any programs

This is therefore a +1 for me.

To comment on the scrollback issue, it just means that, by default, the key combinations <shift><pgup> or <shift><pgdn> will not allow someone to scrollback in the terminal buffer unless the terminal is first put into scrollback/copy mode by pressing F8, which is, I beleive, clearly documented in the byobu manpage and online help.