killing tmux
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https://youtu.be/QWPyYx54JbE

Date: August 11, 2021

https://youtu.be/QWPyYx54JbE

Now it’s time to switch gears, we are onto a different part of our day and there are just too many sessions running and we need to clean up shop.

kill-server
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One viable option is to nuke the whole dang thing. I actually do this more than you might think.

[code]
  tmux kill-server

│ save and commit your work diligently before kill-server

kill-session
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A more reasonable option might be to kill a single session.

[code]
  # kills the current session
  tmux kill-session

  # kills the session named scratch
  tmux kill-session -t scratch

choose-tree
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Killing sessions one by one from the command line can be a bit tedious, and involve more keystrokes than necessary. Another option built right into tmux is choose-tree. By default choose-tree is bound to prefix+s, that’s pressing control+b then s. Once you are in choose-tree, you can navigate around with your configured navigation scheme, press x to kill a session, or pane or window then y to confirm. You can also batch delete by tagging items with t, and killing them all at once with X.

tmux choose-tree </tmux-choose-tree/>

│ check out this post for a bit more information on choose-tree

fuzzy matcher
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Here is my preferred way, using a fuzzy matcher. I recently improved this one by making it a popup and cleaning it up based on a repsonse, tmux-output-formatting <https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2021/08/06/tmux-output-formatting/> by DJ Adams <https://twitter.com/qmacro>. I press prefix+k to bring up a kill-session menu.

[code]
  bind k display-popup -E "\
      tmux list-sessions -F '#{?session_attached,,#{session_name}}' |\
      fzf --reverse -m --header=kill-session |\
      xargs -I {} tmux kill-session -t {}"

│ note this is setup to multiple sessions all at once.

How I navigate tmux in 2021 </tmux-nav-2021/>

│ for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTRNG6WIHETB4reAxbWza3CZeP9KL6Bkr> to see all of the videos in this series.