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fLOyd
fLOyd

Reputation: 505

How to change the position of pane in Tmux

I want to change the postion of a pane such as that I want to change pane 4 to pane 3 after pane 3 exits.

Upvotes: 35

Views: 34171

Answers (2)

Thor
Thor

Reputation: 47209

You may want to consider using layouts and rotate-window. For example if you are using main-vertical layout and close the "main" window, then:

  1. Reset the layout with C-b M-4.
  2. Rotate up or down (C-b C-o or C-b M-o) until the desired window is main.

You might also want to change the prefix to a shorter version. I like back-tick, so I have this in my tmux.conf file:

unbind-key C-b
set-option -g prefix `
bind-key ` send-prefix

And to make C-o and M-o repeatable add:

bind-key -r C-o rotate-window -U
bind-key -r M-o rotate-window -D

Upvotes: 4

Rob Axelsen
Rob Axelsen

Reputation: 1034

To change pane 4 to pane 3 after pane 3 exits:

C-b {          move the current pane to the previous position

Here are more shortcuts for moving panes around:

C-b }          move the current pane to the next position
C-b C-o        rotate window ‘up’ (i.e. move all panes)
C-b M-o        rotate window ‘down’
C-b !          move the current pane into a new separate
               window (‘break pane’)
C-b :move-pane -t :3.2
               split window 3's pane 2 and move the current pane there

Source: tmux cheatsheet

Upvotes: 70

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