How to convert 2 horizontal panes to vertical panes in tmux?

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After doing join-pane on 2 windows, you have 2 horizontal panes. How do I rearrange the panes to be vertical panes instead?

score 443 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 16 '14 at 11:23

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C-b space (bound to next-layout by default) cycles through available layouts, you can also use the select-layout command.

M-1 to M-5  Arrange panes in one of the five preset layouts: even-
            horizontal, even-vertical, main-horizontal, main-
            vertical, or tiled.

On OS X, M is Esc, i.e. Ctrl-b Esc-1.

See man tmux for more details.

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Yup, that worked, `C-b M-1` worked for me – krishonadish Oct 29 '12 at 17:47
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On Linux, Meta => Alt key, so Ctrl-b + Alt-<1-5> does the work. – 0xF1 Dec 20 '19 at 08:32
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If all of above is not working for you, try C-b – user81635 Nov 01 '21 at 23:51
`C-b ` is the only thing that worked for me indeed – polynomial_donut Oct 25 '22 at 10:57

score 17 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 16 '15 at 10:57

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In Mac OS Yosemite, this works:

Prefix + Option-[1-5]

e.g: Ctrl-b Option-1

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answered Jul 16 '15 at 09:57

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on my mac with iTerm2, this translates to `Control-b ESC 1` – johntellsall Oct 16 '22 at 19:21

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 26 '12 at 07:39

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You should be able to use:

ctrl-b meta-2

to do this, but I'm unable to test it since OS X doesn't like anything too "meta" (we have at least that in common).

Source: http://hyperpolyglot.org/multiplexers

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You should be able to configure your terminal emulator with “option as meta“ (*Terminal*) or “option as +Esc“ (*iTerm2*), but you can always type C-b M-2 manually as C-b ESC 2. – Chris Johnsen Oct 26 '12 at 08:20

peterph · Answer 4 · 2022-09-01T22:33:04.207

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There are also an options for explicitly requiring the join/split to happen vertically/horizontally: -h and -v

(see man page and note that the -h/-v do not refer to the direction of the separator line).

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answered Oct 30 '12 at 11:11

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how does tmux swap two pane? – CS QGB Aug 30 '22 at 07:13
With the `swap-pane` command. – peterph Sep 01 '22 at 22:32
or use C-b space – CS QGB Sep 01 '22 at 22:41

How to convert 2 horizontal panes to vertical panes in tmux?

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