TMUX using HJKL to navigate panes

Question

Standard TMUX is set to use ctrl-b + [up, down, left, right] when navigating between panes.

I would like to make it so that I can use ctrl-b (or the prefix of my choice

Answer 1

Did you remember to source your ~/.tmux.conf file? After making any changes in this file you need to enter the following command to see any of the changes take place

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf