A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux

The shortcut to split panes into a left and a right pane is C-b %.

Switching to a different pane uses the C-b <arrow key> shortcut

Either type exit or hit Ctrl-d and it’s gone.

Creating new windows is as easy as typing C-b c (

To switch to the previous window (according to the order in your status bar) use C-b p, to switch to the next window use C-b n.

C-b <number> where

To detach your current session use C-b d.

use C-b D to have tmux give you a choice which of your sessions you want to detach.

tmux ls

tmux attach -t 0

ntmux new -s database

You could also rename your existing session:

tmux rename-session -t 0 database

The next time you attach to that session you simply use

tmux attach -t database.