Byobu
Friendly wrappers and a status bar around a terminal multiplexer
About
Byobu is a set of profiles and keybindings layered over a multiplexer such as tmux or screen. It adds a status line showing load, battery and notifications. Common actions are one keypress away.
Install it
pkg install byobu
Run this inside Termux. If the package is already present, pkg will say so and
do nothing.
Commands worth knowing
5 of the invocations you will actually reach for. Tap the copy button to put one on your clipboard.
byobu Launch a new managed session. The status bar appears at the bottom of the screen. byobu new-session -s work Start a named session. Return to it by name later. byobu attach -t work Reattach to a session you detached earlier. No windows are recreated. byobu list-sessions Show the sessions that exist. Choose which one to rejoin. byobu kill-session -t work Close a named session and everything inside it when that work is done. Worked example
Run byobu list-sessions and this is what you should see.
$ byobu list-sessions
work: 2 windows (created Sat Oct 24 09:12:03 2026) (attached)
build: 1 windows (created Sat Oct 24 10:40:11 2026)
logs: 3 windows (created Sat Oct 24 10:41:52 2026) Developed by
Dustin Kirkland · released under GPL-3.0-or-later.