byobu-select-profile(1)

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version 7.20 · 3 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

💖 byobu-select-profile — the glow-up station for your Byobu bar 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the byobu manual set, and honestly? it's the cutest little utility nobody told you about. it's giving personal stylist, but for your terminal.

✨ NAME ✨

byobu-select-profile — like, the whole entire job is picking your Byobu foreground and background colors. that's it. that's the gig. and she SERVES 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so byobu-select-profile is an application (yes, a whole little app, for colors, iconic behavior) that changes Byobu's status bar foreground and background colors 💅

that's the vibe. you run it, your status bar gets a whole new lewk, and you get to feel like the main character every time you look at the bottom of your screen. no cap.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's the menu, bestie. every single one of them, nothing skipped, periodt:

  • -l, --list — lists out all the available profiles. window shopping but for palettes 🛍️
  • -b, --background COLOR — sets the background color. pass it a COLOR and she'll take it from there.
  • -f, --foreground COLOR — sets the foreground</color> color. same deal, hand her a COLOR.
  • -h, --hostname — picks your colors based on a hash of the hostname. so every machine gets its own lil identity, and it stays consistent 🦋
  • -i, --ip — picks your colors based on a hash of the ip. same energy, but keyed off the IP instead 🌈
  • -r, --random — sets the colors randomly. chaos mode. let the universe decide 🎲✨
  • --help — this help. hi, this is the help 👋
lowkey the hashing ones (--hostname, --ip) are the sleepers here — same input, same colors, every single time. it's not random, it's destiny 💫

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

real talk, credit where it's due: this manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@byobu.org> for Ubuntu systems (but like, anyone can use it, it's not gatekept 💜).

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. slay, legally speaking.

the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

and that's the whole page, bestie. this one's from the byobu crew, dated 4 Dec 2009 — yeah she's old but she ATE and she's still cute. go pick a profile and glow up your status bar, you deserve it 💖✨🎀🦋

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