byobu function keys are not responsive

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f2 - opens a new session
f3 - switches to next session
f4 - switches to previous session

These keys do not work, or work very well, when using mintty. If you pound the 
key like 10 times it eventually works, but otherwise pressing it does nothing. 

I have messed around with a bunch of the options in mintty and still can't get 
it working. 

I know it is not something with cygwin because opening the regular cygwin 
terminal byobu function keys work fine. 

using version 1.1.1

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by logan.li...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2013 at 12:03

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Where are you running byobu? Locally on Cygwin or remotely? If the latter, on 
what sort of host? Sounds like it could be the same as issue 366, with key 
sequences getting split up along the way somewhere and 

The interesting comparison would be with Cygwin's xterm, because the console 
works quite differently and has different keycodes.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 20 Jan 2013 at 6:44

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I am running byobu on a remote server (Ubuntu 13.04) over ssh (Cygwin) and I 
run into the same problems. Sometimes keystrokes work, sometimes one has to 
press multiple times to make a change.

Original comment by tibor.dj...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2013 at 2:49

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I've been looking for a solution to this one for months too. Upvote from me.

Original comment by j...@secret.org.uk on 11 Sep 2014 at 2:50

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I found that switching Byobu from Tmux to GNU-Screen helps with it recognizing 
all of the keystrokes, although some keys aren't working such as splitting with 
Shift-F2

Original comment by kiyotoki...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2014 at 5:31

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I can confirm the shift-F2 key combination does not work. (it writes ~ instead)
Windows 7/Cygwin/mintty connected via ssh to Centos 6.8 server running 
byobu/tmux

thanks

Pavel

Original comment by benny...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2015 at 1:10

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Answered on https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/368

Original comment by towom...@googlemail.com on 23 Jun 2015 at 12:59