> ## 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 and windows

> Open, organize, and manage tabs at the top of the Rumus window.

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](/docs/terminal/profiles).
* A **remote terminal** — an SSH session opened from a saved host.
* A **workspace** — a special tab type that holds a [canvas](/docs/terminal/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:

| Action                      | What it does                                                    |
| --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **New tab**                 | Open a new tab with your default profile                        |
| **Duplicate tab**           | Open a new tab using the same profile / host as the current one |
| **Rename tab**              | Give the tab a custom label                                     |
| **Close other tabs**        | Close every tab except this one                                 |
| **Close tabs to the right** | Close every tab to the right of this one                        |
| **Close all tabs**          | Close 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](/docs/customization/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](/docs/remote/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

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Workspaces & canvas" icon="grip" href="/docs/terminal/canvas">
    Lay out multiple terminals, monitors, and notes inside a single tab.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Profiles" icon="terminal" href="/docs/terminal/profiles">
    Configure which shells, env vars, and start directories your tabs use.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>