How to terminate a window in tmux

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How to terminate a window in tmux  Like the Ctrlak shortcut in screen with Ctrla being the prefix

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If you just want to do it once  without adding a shortcut  you can always type   lt prefix gt     kill-window  lt enter gt

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Generally   tmux kill-window -t window-number   So for example  if you are in window 1 and you want to kill window 9   tmux kill-window -t 9

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ctrl   d kills a window in linux terminal  also works in tmux   This is kind of a approach

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For me solution looks like     ctrl b q to show pane numbers  ctrl b x to kill pane    Killing last pane will kill window

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lt Prefix gt   amp  for killing a window   lt Prefix gt  x for killing a pane  If there is only one pane  i e  the window is not split into multiple panes   lt Prefix gt  x would kill the window   As always iterated   lt Prefix gt  is generally CTRL b   I think for beginner questions  we can just say CTRL b all the time  and not talk about prefix at all  but anyway

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While you asked how to kill a window resp  pane  I often wouldn t want to kill it but simply to get it back to a working state  the layout of panes is of importance to me  killing a pane destroys it so I must recreate it   tmux provides the respawn commands to that effect  respawn-pane resp  respawn-window  Just that people like me may find this solution here

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try   Prefix    amp  if you have bind q killp  in your  tmux conf  you can press Prefix   q to kill the window too  only if there is only one panel in that window  if you have multiple panes and want to kill the whole window at once use killw instead of killp in your config  the default of Prefix above is Ctrl b  so to terminate window by default you can use Ctrl b  amp

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Kent s response fully answered your question  however if you are looking to change tmux s configuration to be similar to GNU Screen  here s a tmux conf that I ve used to accomplish this     Prefix key set -g prefix C-a unbind C-b bind C-a send-prefix    Keys bind k confirm kill-window bind K confirm kill-server bind   split-window -h bind   split-window -v bind  lt  resize-pane -L 1 bind  gt  resize-pane -R 1 bind - resize-pane -D 1 bind   resize-pane -U 1 bind   command-prompt bind a last-window bind space command-prompt -p index  select-window  bind r source-file    tmux conf    Options set -g bell-action none set -g set-titles on set -g set-titles-string  tmux   I  W   set -g base-index 1 set -g status-left    set -g status-left-attr bold set -g status-right  tmux  set -g pane-active-border-bg black set -g pane-active-border-fg black set -g default-terminal  screen-256color     Window options setw -g monitor-activity off setw -g automatic-rename off    Colors setw -g window-status-current-fg colour191 set -g status-bg default set -g status-fg white set -g message-bg default set -g message-fg colour191

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By default  lt Prefix gt   amp  for killing a window  lt Prefix gt  x for killing a pane And you can add config info    vi    tmux conf bind-key X kill-session   then  lt Prefix gt  X for killing a session

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Lot s of different ways to do this  but my favorite is simply typing  exit  on the bash prompt

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