---
title: "tmux select-layout"
description: "https://youtu.be/F0mHnwTrNNc"
date: 2021-07-21
published: true
tags:
  - cli
  - linux
  - tmux
template: blog-post
---


[https://youtu.be/F0mHnwTrNNc](https://youtu.be/F0mHnwTrNNc){.youtube-embed}

When you get many splits going in tmux sometimes its time for a new layout.
There are four layout strategies that I use, main-vertical, main-horizontal,
even-vertical, even-horizontal. Almost always I am useing the main ones with
mod plus a or mod plus shift a keybindings.

``` bash
# Select Layouts
#―――――――――――――――――
bind -n M-a select-layout main-vertical
bind -n M-A select-layout main-horizontal
bind -n M-E select-layout even-vertical
bind -n M-V select-layout even-horizontal
```

<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