I was looking on doing the same but ended up doing some hackish bash script, as in: byobu new-session -d; byobu split-window -d; byobu split-window -dh; byobu

I was looking on doing the same but ended up doing some hackish bash script, as in: byobu new-session -d; byobu split-window -d; byobu split-window -dh; byobu Getting it to run a command automatically on each panel got too complicated so I settled on that. (byobu is a preconfigured tmux from ubuntu)