Tabs and windows

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.

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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.

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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.

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Tab context menu

Right-click any tab for these actions:

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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Next steps