Select and Reorder Windows in tmux

From the tmux cheat sheet ยท Windows ยท verified Aug 2026

Select and Reorder Windows

Move between windows and change their indexes.

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# Ctrl-b n  next
# Ctrl-b p  previous
# Ctrl-b 0  window zero
โšก Ctrl-b w opens the window chooser
๐Ÿ’ก A named target survives index changes
๐Ÿ“Œ Numeric prefix keys select matching indexes
๐Ÿ” move-window can leave index gaps
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