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Split the screen into panes

Split the main area into panes and look at sessions, files and the commit graph side by side. It suits moving one piece of work forward while keeping an eye on another.

How it works

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What you do What happens
Ctrl+click an item, or press Split right or Split down on the bar A new pane opens
Drag a pane’s handle or a border Swaps panes or resizes them
Choose the main area layout in Appearance Switches between split panes and the tabbed grid

Open in a new pane

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  • Ctrl+click (or middle-click) a session, repository or file and it opens in a new pane instead of replacing the current one
  • An assistant chat opens in a new pane from Open in a new pane on its right-click menu
  • Split right and Split down on the workspace action bar add an empty pane too

Rearrange and close

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What you want How
Swap Drag the handle at the top of a pane onto another pane
Resize Drag the border between panes
Close The pane’s close button. A middle-click or Ctrl+click closes it without asking
Close everything Close all on the workspace action bar. You are back on Home

Choose the layout

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Switch it from Appearance on the top bar (the paint bucket), or from Main area layout in ⚙ Settings → Display.

The top bar's Appearance menu, open. Under Language is "Main area layout" with a switch between "Split panes" and "Tabbed grid"
Layout Suits
Split panes A few things laid out, resized as you go
Tabbed grid (default) Many things open. Each cell switches between tabs instead of adding cells
  • The layout is kept in this browser only. Each layout keeps its own arrangement, so switching back and forth does not undo it
  • In the tabbed grid, closing the tab on show brings back the tab you showed before it
  • In the tabbed grid, right-clicking a session’s tab opens the same menu as that session’s row in the left pane

How many you can lay out:

Screen Limit
Computer, split panes 4 columns × 2 rows
Computer, tabbed grid 3 columns × 2 rows, 24 tabs in all
Phone 1 column, 2 panes

Move a pane to its own tab

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The detach button at a pane’s top right moves the pane to a separate browser tab. It leaves the original screen.

  • The new tab has a thin title bar, and Expand to full console turns it into the regular Console
  • It suits keeping one session on a second display
  • A pane that cannot move says “This pane cannot be moved to its own tab”

Switch between chat and terminal

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A session running in Terminal (CLI) switches between the conversation and the terminal with Chat and Terminal at the top of the pane. Managed sessions have the chat view only (Start a session).

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