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I started a putty window, changed the font, and then did Windows-Left to fit it to the left side of the screen and it decided to do the screenshot below. The only way i've found to make it go away is the log off/on but that's obviously impractical and doesn't fix the problem.

I've had it in the past but not this bad. It usually happens when I move or resize the window. Is there a setting to have it just auto resize by default?

[edit] and then, about :05 later out of nowhere, it popped away. I'm just sitting here doing something else and it changed back to normal.

this?

Vadim Kotov
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That means that you (or someone else) is connected to the same Byobu session from another computer with a smaller terminal size.

You should be able to kick the other session using Alt-F6.

Full disclosure: I am the author and maintainer of Byobu.

Dustin Kirkland
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    That wasn't the case. This is a local dev VM. The vm console was sitting at login prompt and I had no other sessions open. This has been the case each time this kind of thing happens. `w` shows only me. It was prompted by a putty window change. Next time it occurs i'll use `alt-f6` anyway and see what happens. – monsto Jun 12 '15 at 22:19
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    unfortunately, `alt-f6` doesn't work from mac. And it does a detached session :( – eduzen Aug 23 '21 at 17:04
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For mac user, by querying from the help info ctrl-a + ?, one could simply run the bash script $BYOBU_PREFIX/lib/byobu/include/tmux-detach-all-but-current-client to kick other sessions.

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