Tmux reference

This document has not been formally reviewed for accuracy and is provided "as is" for your convenience.

Summary

you can use this in reference to attach or detach an session with tmux and not lose command execution, by session closure.

# session management

tmux ls (or tmux list-sessions)

tmux new -s session-name

Ctrl-b d Detach from session

tmux attach -t [session name]

tmux kill-session -t session-name

Ctrl-b c Create new window

Ctrl-b d Detach current client

Ctrl-b l Move to previously selected window

Ctrl-b n Move to the next window

Ctrl-b p Move to the previous window

Ctrl-b & Kill the current window

Ctrl-b , Rename the current window

Ctrl-b q Show pane numbers (used to switch between panes)

Ctrl-b o Switch to the next pane

Ctrl-b ? List all keybindings

# moving between windows

Ctrl-b n (Move to the next window)

Ctrl-b p (Move to the previous window)

Ctrl-b l (Move to the previously selected window)

Ctrl-b w (List all windows / window numbers)

Ctrl-b window number (Move to the specified window number, the

default bindings are from 0 -- 9)

# Tiling commands

Ctrl-b % (Split the window vertically)

CTRL-b " (Split window horizontally)

Ctrl-b o (Goto next pane)

Ctrl-b q (Show pane numbers, when the numbers show up type the key to go to that pane)

Ctrl-b { (Move the current pane left)

Ctrl-b } (Move the current pane right)

# Make a pane its own window

Ctrl-b : "break-pane"

# add to ~/.tmux.conf

bind | split-window -h

bind - split-window -v

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