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Getting Started with tmux

By : Victor Quinn
Book Image

Getting Started with tmux

By: Victor Quinn

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Getting Started with tmux
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Resizing panes


OK, now things are a bit silly here with all these panes. Let's try to resize them a little so things are a bit more manageable. First though, let's type some random text in each pane so we can tell them apart.

Have a look at the following screenshot where we have written Apple, Banana, Cherry, and Date. You can do so by typing in one window, then using the <Prefix> key followed by the arrow keys to move on to the next one until all panes have some unique text, as shown in the following screenshot:

Let's try resizing the panes by some decent increments. Get the cursor over to the Date window, either using <Prefix>, arrow keys or <Prefix>, o.

Now to resize it, let's try <Prefix>, Meta and the right arrow key. You should see the rightmost pane get a bit smaller. Try it again and it gets even smaller. Try <Prefix>, Meta and the left arrow key, and you should see the rightmost pane get a bit larger.

Note

If you look at your keyboard and see no Meta key...