Tmux Shortcut – How to Create a Shortcut to Resize Panes in Tmux Window

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I am having lots of issues with tmux on Mac.

One problem I have is that I cannot bind a key in my tmux.conf to resize my panes.

What I need is the CTRL-b: resize-pane -U 10 I currently do to increase the size of the pane upwards ten cells (or downwards or left or right) to be done by a key shortcut and not to actually have to type this over and over (which I currently do unfortunately).

But I can not find a way to configure this since on Mac, it seems that CTRL and other keys work diffently than on Linux.

Can anyone please help me out?

Best Answer

In ~/.tmux.conf:

bind e resize-pane -U 10

Then, tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf. (another useful shortcut: use the same principle).

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The easiest thing to do is to detach any other clients from the sessions when you attach:

tmux attach -d

or short

tmux a -d

Alternately, you can move any other clients to a different session before attaching to the session: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7819465/1069083

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With tmux list-client, you can list all clients connected to tmux sessions. For instance:

$ tmux list-client
/dev/pts/6: 0 [25x80 xterm] (utf8)
/dev/pts/8: 0 [25x80 xterm] (utf8)

From this point, you can choose to detach a specified client, or all clients of a specified session. Say I want to detach everyone connected to session 0:

$ tmux detach-client -s 0

Then, you can attach the session so the size will be yours.

Actually, all that can be done with tmux attach -d (the -d option force all other clients to detach).

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