How to close tab in tmux?

Question

Is there a shortcut key to close a tab?
I'm asking for something like creating a tab CTRL b + c
What shortcut should I use if I would like to close the 1:cmatrix* tab?

score 32 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '15 at 17:06

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I think this is what you are looking for: http://www.dayid.org/os/notes/tm.html

Specifically this part:

kill the current pane: ^b x OR (logout/^D)  
close other panes except the current one: ^b !  

The formatting here is simple enough to understand (I would hope). 
^ means ctrl+, so ^x is ctrl+x. M- means meta (generally left-alt or escape)+,
so M-x is left-alt+x

answered Oct 08 '15 at 17:06

Webbies

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Thank you Webbies. This is what I was looking for. – Cristian Oct 08 '15 at 17:08
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"" kill the current pane: ^b x OR (logout/^D) "" = Ctrl+b x – Jun 22 '19 at 02:55
Additionally, you can also do ```^d``` or just type ```exit``` after you have quit (```^c```) the current running program in the terminal. – Matt Popovich Feb 17 '21 at 02:10

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '19 at 04:06

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prefix+x: kill the current pane
prefix+&: kill the current window

Note the difference between pane and window. OP actually wants to kill a window. So prefix+& will be better suited especially when a window has multiple pane splits.

answered Sep 24 '19 at 04:06

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 28 '23 at 17:59

It is not precisely the question but I reached this pane needing it. If you want to close a pane from another you can try listing the panes and killing it from id.

tmux list-panes

Should return something like:

0: [209x67] [history 284/2000, 167338 bytes] %2 (active)
1: [209x19] [history 722/2000, 256904 bytes] %1

Simply use this to kill the one you want:

tmux kill-pane -t #PANENUMBER

How to close tab in tmux?

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