I am following a tmux tutorial which states (Control + b) + %
should open a new pane. When I try to do this from tmux though, the Control + b
keypress just gets converted into a character which displays on the command line.
Various tmux tutorials seem to treat Control + b
as a special keypress, but it always just appears as a character on my command line. How do I use the tmux prefix correctly?
That tutorial you linked to in your question has you overriding the default Control-b
with Control-a
try (Control-a) + %
this is a popular override. I use it. My ~/.tmux.conf has:
set -g prefix C-a
unbind C-b
bind C-a send-prefix
this is nice when you also remap your caps lock key to be control, the caps lock key and the 'a' key are right next to each other
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