Scrolling in tmux

Using tmux, you sometimes wanna scroll up and down the window just like you used to in the normal bash shell.

It’s dead simple as this:

ctrl + b + [

This will allow you to scroll. Pressing q would quit scroll mode.

Getting back to tmux session

tmux attach -t [session number]

would do it. you can check the session number with:

tmux ls

Killing a window / a pane

for a window:

ctrl + b + &

for a pane:

ctrl + b + x

Selecting a pane

ctrl + b + q 

will show you numbers on panes. Type the number of a pane to go to that pane.

Written by Joel Mun. Joel likes Rust, GoLang, Typescript, Wasm and more. He also loves to enlarge the boundaries of his knowledge, mainly by reading books and watching lectures on Youtube. Guitar and piano are necessities at his home.