<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="guide" id="gs-tabs"> <info> <link type="guide" xref="index#getting-started"/> <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-02-17" status="candidate"/> <revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-03-07" status="candidate"/> <credit type="author copyright"> <name>Sindhu S</name> <email its:translate="no">sindhus@live.in</email> <years>2013</years> </credit> <credit type="copyright editor"> <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name> <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email> <years>2013–2014</years> </credit> <credit type="copyright editor"> <name>Michael Hill</name> <email its:translate="no">mdhillca@gmail.com</email> <years>2013</years> </credit> <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> <desc>Enable, add, remove and reorder <app>Terminal</app> tabs.</desc> </info> <title>Use tabs</title> <p>The tab bar is shown at the top a <app>Terminal</app> window that has multiple tabs open (it looks like a row of buttons). Click on a tab to switch to it. You can open multiple tabs to manage your work in <app>Terminal</app>. This will allow you to multi-task with activities such as running programs, browsing directories and editing text files in a single <app>Terminal</app> window.</p> <section id="add-tab"> <title>Open a new tab</title> <p>To open a new tab inside your current <app>Terminal</app> window:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Press <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Ctrl</key><key>T</key></keyseq>.</p> </item> </steps> </section> <!-- TODO: doesn't work, see bug 720693 <section id="rename-tab"> <title>Rename a tab</title> <p>Each tab has an automatically assigned title. You can rename the tabs individually:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Terminal</gui> <gui style="menuitem">Set Title…</gui></guiseq>.</p> </item> <item> <p>Enter the desired <gui>Title</gui> that you wish to use for the tab. This will overwrite any titles that would be set by terminal commands. </p> <note> <p>It is not possible to set back the automatically set title once it has been set for a tab. To see the title, you need to allow terminal command titles to be shown in the <gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui>.</p> </note> </item> <item> <p>Click <gui style="button">OK</gui>.</p> </item> </steps> </section>--> <section id="close-tab"> <title>Remove a tab</title> <p>To close an existing tab inside your current <app>Terminal</app> window:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">File</gui><gui style="menuitem">Close Tab</gui></guiseq>.</p> </item> </steps> <p>Alternatively, you can click on the <gui style="button">×</gui> in the top right corner of the tab or right click on the tab and select <gui style="menuitem">Close Terminal</gui>.</p> </section> <section id="reorder-tab"> <title>Reorder tabs</title> <p>To change the ordering of tabs in a window:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Click and hold the left mouse button on the tab.</p> </item> <item> <p>Drag the tab to the desired position among the other tabs.</p> </item> <item> <p>Release the mouse button.</p> </item> </steps> <p>The tab will be placed in the position closest to where you released the tab, immediately beside other open tabs.</p> <p>Alternatively, you can reorder a tab by right clicking on a tab and selecting <gui style="menuitem">Move Terminal Left</gui> to move the tab to the left or <gui style="menuitem">Move Terminal Right</gui> to move the tab to the right. This will reorder the tab position by moving it one place at a time.</p> </section> <section id="move-tab-another-window"> <title>Move a tab to another <app>Terminal</app> window</title> <p>If you want to move a tab from one window to another:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Click and hold the left mouse button on the tab.</p> </item> <item> <p>Drag the tab to the new window.</p> </item> <item> <p>Place it beside other tabs in the new window.</p> </item> <item> <p>Release the mouse button.</p> </item> </steps> <note style="tip"> <p>You can move a tab from one window to another by dragging the tab to the <gui>Activities</gui> hot-corner of the <gui>GNOME Shell</gui>. This will reveal each of the open <app>Terminal</app> windows. You can release the tab that you are holding over the desired <app>Terminal</app> window.</p> </note> </section> <section id="move-tab-create-window"> <title>Move a tab to create a new <app>Terminal</app> window</title> <p>To create a new window from an existing tab:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Click and hold the left mouse button on the tab.</p> </item> <item> <p>Drag the tab out of the current <app>Terminal</app> window.</p> </item> <item> <p>Release the mouse button.</p> </item> </steps> </section> </page>
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