tmux Terminal Multiplexer Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Essential keyboard shortcuts and commands for tmux. Sessions, windows, vertical/horizontal splits, pane resizing, and detach/attach.

Session Management

Start a brand new named tmux sessiontmux new -s <name>

Reattach to an existing background tmux sessiontmux attach -t <name>

List all running background tmux sessionstmux ls

Detach cleanly from active session (leaves processes running)Ctrl+b d

Terminate specified session and kill its processestmux kill-session -t <name>

Split current pane vertically into left and rightCtrl+b %

Split current pane horizontally into top and bottomCtrl+b "

Move focus to pane in direction of arrow keyCtrl+b <arrow>

Toggle zoom / fullscreen for active paneCtrl+b z

Close / kill active pane (with confirmation)Ctrl+b x

Swap current pane position with adjacent paneCtrl+b { or }

Create a new window (tab)Ctrl+b c

Switch to next / previous windowCtrl+b n / p

Jump directly to window by numberCtrl+b <0-9>

Rename the current window tabCtrl+b ,

Open interactive visual list of all sessions and windowsCtrl+b w

• How do I scroll up in a tmux pane?

Press `Ctrl+b [` to enter Copy/Scroll mode, use the arrow keys or `PageUp`/`PageDown` to scroll, and press `q` to return to normal terminal input.