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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.rumus.ai/docs/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

Tabs are how you keep multiple sessions side by side. They live across the top of the window and behave like browser tabs: drag to reorder, right-click for actions, scroll horizontally when there are too many to fit.

What can be in a tab

A tab in Rumus isn’t always a shell. It can be:
  • A local terminal — your default shell, or any other profile.
  • A remote terminal — an SSH session opened from a saved host.
  • A workspace — a special tab type that holds a canvas full of cards.
  • Settings, chat history, and a few other built-in views.
The icon and label on each tab tells you what kind it is.

Open a new tab

Two ways:
  • Click the + button in the tab bar to open a tab with your default profile.
  • Click the chevron next to the + to choose a specific shell profile, a saved remote host, or Remote Connection to manage hosts.
On Windows, the chevron menu auto-lists every installed WSL distribution alongside cmd, PowerShell, and Git Bash.

Tab context menu

Right-click any tab for these actions:
ActionWhat it does
New tabOpen a new tab with your default profile
Duplicate tabOpen a new tab using the same profile / host as the current one
Rename tabGive the tab a custom label
Close other tabsClose every tab except this one
Close tabs to the rightClose every tab to the right of this one
Close all tabsClose every tab

When you have many tabs open

If your tabs don’t fit in the title bar, Rumus shows scroll controls on either side of the tab list — click them, or use a horizontal scroll gesture, to reach tabs further along.

Reorder, drag, and detach

  • Drag a tab left or right to reorder it.
  • Drag a tab beyond the title bar to detach it into its own window (when supported by your platform window manager).

Closing tabs

  • Click the × on the tab — or use the keyboard shortcut bound to Close tab in Settings → Keyboard.
  • Middle-click also closes a tab on most platforms.
  • Closing the last remaining tab closes the window.

Per-tab styling cues

Tabs visually pick up styling from the underlying session:
  • Saved hosts can carry a tab color (set per-host in Settings → Vaults → Hosts) — a colored stripe on the tab makes prod / staging / dev easy to tell apart at a glance.
  • Workspaces show a workspace icon and color.

Next steps

Workspaces & canvas

Lay out multiple terminals, monitors, and notes inside a single tab.

Profiles

Configure which shells, env vars, and start directories your tabs use.