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    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "byobu-select-backend",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/byobu-select-backend/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-07-05T13:38:59Z",
    "synopsis": "byobu-select-backend [screen|tmux]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "byobu-select-backend - select your default Byobu backend window manager\n\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "byobu-select-backend [screen|tmux]\n\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "byobu-select-backend is an application that lists the available Byobu backends and allows you\nto select your default.\n\nYou can select one of either screen(1) or tmux(1) on the command line, or giving  no  command\nline parameters, the utility will run interactively.\n\nThis utility will only affect which backend is used by default when simply running, byobu(1).\nNote that at any time, you can force the backend of  a  particular  session  by  running  the\nhelpers, byobu-screen(1) or byobu-tmux(1).\n\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "FILES": {
            "content": "~/.byobu/backend\n\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "byobu(1), byobu-screen(1), byobu-tmux(1), screen(1), tmux(1)\n\nhttp://byobu.org\n\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHOR": {
            "content": "This  manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@byobu.org> for Ubuntu\nsystems (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify\nthis  document  and  the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3\npublished by the Free Software Foundation.\n\nThe complete text of the GNU General Public License can  be  found  in  /usr/share/common-li‐\ncenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora sys‐\ntems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.\n\n\n\nbyobu                                        30 Oct 2011                     byobu-select-backend(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "byobu-select-backend - select your default Byobu backend window manager",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "byobu",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/byobu/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "byobu-screen",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/byobu-screen/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "byobu-tmux",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/byobu-tmux/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "screen",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/screen/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "tmux",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/tmux/1/json"
        }
    ]
}