Comment 8 for bug 1350810

It may be a different/unrelated issue, but I'm experiencing something similar since rebuilding my laptop with Ubuntu 16.04, having previously been using 14.04.

From gnome-terminal I run byobu (from the Ubuntu 16.04 repos) locally and also, in another gnome-terminal window, I SSH to a Debian 8 server running byobu (from the Debian 8 repos).

Since upgrading my laptop to 16.04 local byobu is still fine, but I'm seeing an issue when using gnome-terminal to SSH to byobu on Debian 8. It is where Shift+F2 simply causes a tilde (~) to be printed, rather than a new horizontal split being created. In-fact Shift+F1 through to Shift+F8 all cause a tilde to be printed.

Do you know whether this issue is related to Ubuntu 16.04's gnome-terminal, Debian 8's byobu, or something else? Notably, the issue did not occur when using gnome-terminal on Ubuntu 14.04 to connect to byobu on the same Debian 8 server. If it's a known issue, is there's a workaround?