---
title: "tmux rotate-window"
description: "https://youtu.be/06z5qf81ofo"
date: 2021-07-22
published: true
tags:
  - cli
  - linux
  - tmux
template: blog-post
---


[https://youtu.be/06z5qf81ofo](https://youtu.be/06z5qf81ofo){.youtube-embed}

Rotate window is the main way that I navigated tmux before I learned
`select-pane`.  It allows you to change your focused pane, or rotate the
position of the panes easily.

Default keybindings

``` bash
bind-key        C-o rotate-window
bind-key          o select-pane -t :.+
```

My keybindings look just a bit different than the default ones, I do not like
needing to hit prefix for every command, especially for repeated commands.  I
set a similar keybinding to the default one that uses mod instead of prefix.

``` bash
bind -n M-o select-pane -t :.+
bind -n M-O rotate-window
```

<a href="/tmux-nav-2021/" class="wikilink" data-title="How I navigate tmux in 2021" data-description="change_speed = (speed) =&gt; [...document.querySelectorAll(&#39;video&#39;)].map(v =&gt; v.playbackRate=v.playbackRate+speed)" data-date="2021-05-11">How I navigate tmux in 2021</a>

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