tmux to screen cheatsheet

tmux-screen-cheatsheet.txt

Screen to tmux cheatsheet

Note: tmux  1.9 has mouse support! 
You can toggle it on and off with c-M/m

+-tmux initialization--------------------------+
| Create session: tmux new-session -s SessName |
| List   session: tmux list-sessions  | tmux ls|
| Join   session: tmux attach-session | tmux a |
| Detach session: C-d                 |        |
+----------------------------------------------+

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|Command         |screen|tmux               |
-----------tabs-----------------------------+
|Esc             |C-a   |C-q                |
|(C)reate tab    |C-c   |C-c                |
|n(A)me tab      |C-A   |C-A                |
|(N)ext tab      |C-n   |C-n, C-right, C-tab|
|(P)rev tab      |C-p   |C-p, C-left        |
|Switch to tab id|      |C-1, C-2, ..       |
|Kill tab        |C-x   |C-x  (close)       |
|(D)etach        |C-d   |C-d                |
+---------windows**-------------------------|
|Split win horz  |C-S   |C--                |
|Split win vert  |      |C-|                |
|show win ID #   |      |C-#                |
|Navigate win    |      |C-up, C-down, C-tab|
|Jump to win ID #|      |C-j, #             |
|(L)ast tab      |      |C-l                |
|Toggl Mous suprt|      |C-M, C-m           |
|----------------+------+-------------------|
|V. Grow   win   |      |C-> (think ‘bigger)|
|V. Shrink win   |      |C-< (think ’smaller|
|H. Grow   win   |      |C-\ slash points   |
|H. Shrink  win  |      |C-/ toward  directn|
|—---------Advanced win mgmt—---------------|
|Zoom/Unzoom |   |      |C-z (think maximize|
|Break window out|      |C-! (turn win->tab)|
|Find Window     |      |C-f, name-to-find  |        
|(re)-Layout wins|      |C-space            |
|----------------+------+-------------------|

+-Session mgmt (advanced)----------------------+
| Switch session: C-s                 |        |
| Rename session: C-S                 |        |
| Create session  C-:new (inside tmux)|        |
+----------------------------------------------+


** these are called panes in tmux jargon
*** you can see a list of all key bindings at any time with C-?.

Last modified 2015-03-26