A tmux Cheat Sheet

This is a cheat sheet for tmux, mainly for my own reference but I thought it was be useful for the general community.

Start a new Session

` tmux new -s geek1`

Attach to an existing session

` tmux attach-session -t geek1`

Session Commands

• S - List sessions.
• $ - Rename current session.
• D - Detach current session.
• Ctrl+B, and then ? - Display Help page in tmux.

Window Commands

• C - Create a new window.
• , - Rename the current window.
• W - List the windows.
• N - Move to the next window.
• P - Move to the previous window.
• 0 to 9 - Move to the window number specified.

Pane Commands

• % - Create a horizontal split.
• “ - Create a vertical split.
• H or Left Arrow - Move to the pane on the left.
• I or Right Arrow - Move to the pane on the right.
• J or Down Arrow - Move to the pane below.
• K or Up Arrow - Move to the pane above.
• Q - Briefly show pane numbers.
• O - Move through panes in order. Each press takes you to the next, until you loop through all of them.
• } - Swap the position of the current pane with the next.
• { - Swap the position of the current pane with the previous.
• X - Close the current pane.