How to remove all key bindings from tmux session?

Question

I am building a GUI that uses tmux and I want to ensure that all existing bindings are removed when the program is started.

I tried using:

$ tmux unbind-key -a

since the documentation states:

If -a is present, all key bindings are removed.

however this does not seem to work, since if I list the binds again with list-keys I still see all of them

UNIX.root · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-30 15:34:07Z

By default it uses the default table (-T prefix). To unbind all keys in all tables:

for table in prefix root copy-mode copy-mode-vi; do tmux unbind -a -T "$table" done

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