Tmux Cheat Sheet

A very basic guide to tmux

All command prefixed with Ctrl+b. Prefix can be changed but it is good enough for me.

Sessions

Command	Description
tmux, tmux new, tmux new-session	Starts a new session
tmux new -s session_name	Starts a new session with name session_name
tmux kill-session -t session_name	Kill session
tmux ls	List all sessions
tmux a [-t session_name]	Attach to the last session/to the session_name session

Command prefixed with… prefix :)

Command	Description
$	Rename session
d	Detach session
(	Move to previous session
)	Move to next session

Windows

Command	Description
c	Creates new window
p	Previous window
n	Next window
w	List windows
,	Rename window
&	Close window
0-9	Select window by number

Panes

Panes are like tiles in a window:

Command	Description
%	Split vertically
"	Split horizontally
arrow keys	Move between panes with the arrow keys
z	Toggle zoom

Commands

For running tmuxcommand you can use:

Ctrl+b :

Saving the session

A very useful feature is the possibility to save the tmux session. You can do it this way:

1. prefix + : + capture-pane -S -2000
2. prefix + : save-buffer filename.txt