How to terminate a window in tmux?

Question

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

Answer 1

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 < resize-pane -L 1
bind > 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

Answer 2

try Prefix + &

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.

the default of Prefix above is Ctrl+b, so to terminate window by default you can use Ctrl+b &

Answer 3

<Prefix> & for killing a window

<Prefix> x for killing a pane

If there is only one pane (i.e. the window is not split into multiple panes, <Prefix> x would kill the window)

As always iterated, <Prefix> 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 :) )

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

For me solution looks like:

1. ctrl+b q to show pane numbers.
2. ctrl+b x to kill pane.

Killing last pane will kill window.

Answer 6

If you just want to do it once, without adding a shortcut, you can always type

<prefix> 
:
kill-window
<enter>

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

ctrl + d kills a window in linux terminal, also works in tmux.

This is kind of a approach.