How to change key binding for Tmux

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Published on 2014-06-12T08:46:03Z Indexed on 2014/06/12 9:41 UTC
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I want to change the key binding in Tmux so I can use

Ctrl + Alt

instead of

Ctrl + b

This is my (unfortunately) not working try to do so.

unbind C-b
set -g prefix M-C

What's wrong with this? Thought I followed the documentation for the keys.

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