Comment 40 for bug 525552

Hi

you probably have a

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
    xterm|xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac

in your .bashrc

and the default TERM for byobu is "screen" (for me)

So
1) add force_color_prompt=yes in your bashrc
or
2) add "screen" (or tmux depending what return "echo $TERM) in the case