Switching tmux windows faster with alt+number
October 11, 2020 ‐ 1 min read
I'm switching quite often. So the default tmux binding of <prefix> <number> starts to feel a bit expensive. I therefor decided that I wanted to switch tmux windows with alt+<number> instead.
This is pretty similar to how I switch workspaces in i3, my window manager (I should checkout sway once, heard it was nice). And the same as in Google Chrome actually.
You can add these alt+number keybindings by putting the following in your ~/.tmux.conf file.
# ~/.tmux.conf
# Switch windows alt+number
bind-key -n M-1 select-window -t 1
bind-key -n M-2 select-window -t 2
bind-key -n M-3 select-window -t 3
bind-key -n M-4 select-window -t 4
bind-key -n M-5 select-window -t 5
bind-key -n M-6 select-window -t 6
bind-key -n M-7 select-window -t 7
bind-key -n M-8 select-window -t 8
bind-key -n M-9 select-window -t 9