tmux keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 81 tmux 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Ctrl+B — Send the prefix key
- Ctrl+B — Describe key binding
- Ctrl+B — Prompt for a command
- Ctrl+B — List key bindings
- Ctrl+B — Show a clock
- Ctrl+B — Show messages
- Ctrl+B — Delete the most recent paste buffer
- Ctrl+B — Choose a paste buffer from a list
- Ctrl+B — List all paste buffers
- Ctrl+B — Enter copy mode
- Ctrl+B — Enter copy mode and scroll up
- Ctrl+B — Paste the most recent paste buffer
- Ctrl+B — Split window vertically
- Ctrl+B — Split window horizontally
- Ctrl+B — Kill current window
- Ctrl+B — Prompt for window index to select
- Ctrl+B — Rename current window
- Ctrl+B — Move the current window
- Ctrl+B — Select window 0
- Ctrl+B — Select window 1
- Ctrl+B — Select window 2
- Ctrl+B — Select window 3
- Ctrl+B — Select window 4
- Ctrl+B — Select window 5
- Ctrl+B — Select window 6
- Ctrl+B — Select window 7
- Ctrl+B — Select window 8
- Ctrl+B — Select window 9
- Ctrl+B — Display window information
- Ctrl+B — Create a new window
- Ctrl+B — Select the next window
- Ctrl+B — Move the visible part of the window up
- Ctrl+B — Move the visible part of the window down
- Ctrl+B — Move the visible part of the window left
- Ctrl+B — Move the visible part of the window right
- Ctrl+B — Select the next window with an alert
- Ctrl+B — Select the previous window with an alert
- Ctrl+B — Choose a window from a list
- Ctrl+B — Select the previously current window
- Ctrl+B — Break pane to a new window
- Ctrl+B — Rotate through the panes
- Ctrl+B — Select the pane above the active pane
- Ctrl+B — Select the pane below the active pane
- Ctrl+B — Select the pane to the left of the active pane
- Ctrl+B — Select the pane to the right of the active pane
- Ctrl+B — Move to the previously active pane
- Ctrl+B — Clear the marked pane
- Ctrl+B — Search for a pane
- Ctrl+B — Kill the active pane
- Ctrl+B — Zoom the active pane
- Ctrl+B — Swap the active pane with the pane above
- Ctrl+B — Swap the active pane with the pane below
- Ctrl+B — Rotate through the panes in reverse
- Ctrl+B — Spread panes out evenly
- Ctrl+B — Toggle the marked pane
- Ctrl+B — Select the next pane
- Ctrl+B — Select the previous pane
- Ctrl+B — Display pane numbers
- Ctrl+B — Choose a session from a list
- Ctrl+B — Rename current session
- Ctrl+B — Switch to previous client
- Ctrl+B — Switch to next client
- Ctrl+B — Switch to the last client
- Ctrl+B — Detach the current client
- Ctrl+B — Suspend the current client
- Ctrl+B — Redraw the current client
- Ctrl+B — Choose a client from a list
- Ctrl+B — Set the even-horizontal layout
- Ctrl+B — Set the even-vertical layout
- Ctrl+B — Set the main-horizontal layout
- Ctrl+B — Set the main-vertical layout
- Ctrl+B — Select the tiled layout
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane up by 5
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane down by 5
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane left by 5
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane right by 5
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane up
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane down
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane left
- Ctrl+B — Resize the pane right
- Ctrl+B — Select next layout
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