# man > byobu-select-profile(1)

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## NAME
       byobu-select-profile - select your Byobu foreground and background colors


## DESCRIPTION
       **byobu-select-profile  **is  an application that changes Byobu's status bar foreground and back‐
       ground colors


## OPTIONS
           -l,--list                list available profiles

           -b,--background COLOR    set the background color

           -f,--foreground COLOR    set the foreground color

           -h,--hostname            set the colors based on a hash of the hostname

           -i,--ip                  set the colors based on a hash of the ip

           -r,--random              set the colors randomly

           --help                   this help


## SEE ALSO
       [**byobu**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/byobu/1/markdown)

       _<http://byobu.org_>


## AUTHOR
       This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <<kirkland@byobu.org>> for  Ubuntu
       systems (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
       this  document  and  the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       The complete text of the GNU General Public License can  be  found  in  _/usr/share/common-li‐_
       _censes/GPL_ on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in _/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL_ on Fedora sys‐
       tems, or on the web at _<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt_>.

byobu                                        4 Dec 2009                      [_byobu-select-profile_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/byobu-select-profile/1/markdown)