Tile Grid

Watch and drive up to six sessions at once, side by side in one window. Each tile is a full live terminal: it reads, it takes your keystrokes, and it shows at a glance whether its agent is working, idle, or waiting on you.

The grid is a desktop feature. It needs a window at least about 1180px wide, and it is never offered in a popped-out session window.

#Turning it on

App Settings → Header & Panels → Tiles. This is a per-device setting, on by default on desktops and laptops and off on phones and tablets, and the button only appears in a window at least 1180px wide. It shows a Tiles button in the header, beside Split, and enables Ctrl+Shift+G.

#Opening a grid

• Tiles button: one click shows the tiles straight away, as many as you last chose (six until you choose; fewer if the window is too small or you have fewer sessions open). You get the grid you last had, its tiles where they were, topped up with your open sessions in tab order; if there is none, an open split's two first; otherwise your open sessions in tab order, with the session you are on focused. With the grid open, the same button closes it.
• Rest the pointer on the Tiles button (or tab to it) for a short card that shows the count it opens and what a click and a right-click do.
• Right-click the Tiles button (or press Shift+F10 on it) to choose how many tiles: 2, 4 or 6, each drawn as its layout. Your choice is remembered on this device and is what the next click opens. With the grid open, picking a count re-forms it: the tile you are in always stays, extra tiles leave from the end, new ones join from your tab order. A count the window is too small for is greyed out, with the reason.
• Ctrl+Shift+G: exactly what a click on the Tiles button does.
• Ctrl+click (or Cmd+click) a tab: adds that session to the grid and focuses it. With the grid closed it opens what the Tiles button would show, with that session among them (still the count you chose in total). On macOS use Cmd: Ctrl+click there opens the tab's rename instead.
• Drag a tab onto a tile to replace that tile with it (the replaced session keeps running), or onto an empty slot to add it. Dragging a session that is already tiled onto another tile swaps the two.
• "Open group as tiles" in a tab group's menu, in the vertical tab rail with groups.
• Run: a session you start from this browser tab's Run button while the grid is open joins it. Sessions started elsewhere (an agent, another device, a cron job) do not.

The layout follows the tile count: 1x1, 2x1, three side by side on a wide screen (else a 2x2 with one empty slot), 2x2, 3x2. The grid holds at most six tiles, fewer when the window is too small for six; the count menu says which limit applies.

Opening, the tiles fade in one after another and each terminal appears once its history has loaded, rather than scrolling through it. Closing with the button, the tiles stay on screen, dimmed, until the single session behind them has loaded, then fade away. With reduced motion turned on in your system settings, the grid opens and closes at once.

#A tile

Each tile has a small header: ● [logo] name · model ......... ⋯ ⤢ ×

Click a tile to focus it. The focused tile has the accent border, takes your keyboard, and is the session every panel follows: files, git status, respawn and Ralph, subagent windows, voice and image paste. Tabs of tiled sessions carry a small underline.

Drag the thin lines between tiles to resize columns and rows. A tile never gets smaller than about 60 columns; when the window is too small for all the tiles, the grid shows the focused one on its own until the window is big enough again.

A tile whose session is not running shows Not attached with an Attach button. A tile whose agent exited inside its pane says so instead; close that session from ⋯.

#Moving tiles

Drag a tile by its header (anywhere but its buttons) onto another tile and the two trade places. Drop it on an empty slot and it moves there, leaving its old place empty; nothing else moves, so the empty slot can be anywhere in the grid. The dropped tile takes the focus. Press Escape or let go anywhere else and nothing changes, not even which tile has the focus: a header focuses its tile when you click it, not when you press it.

With the keyboard, Ctrl+Shift+Arrows moves the focused tile one place left, right, up or down: into the empty slot if that is the place, else trading places with the tile there. It keeps the focus.

A moved tile takes the size of the place it lands in: column widths and row heights stay where you dragged the dividers. Tiles do not move while one is zoomed. Where everything is, the empty slot included, is saved with the grid and comes back on reload.

Closing a tile leaves its place empty when the grid keeps its shape (six tiles to five), and a new tile takes the first empty place. When the number of tiles changes the grid's shape (four tiles to five is two columns to three), the tiles keep their places if they still fit, or line up again from the top left. Alt+Shift+Arrows and Ctrl+Tab never stop on an empty slot.

#Keys

All of them can be rebound in App Settings → Shortcuts, where Remove Focused Tile can also get a key. Outside the grid, Alt+Shift+Arrows, Ctrl+Shift+Arrows and Alt+Shift+Enter go to the terminal as usual. While it is open, Alt+Shift+Arrows and Ctrl+Shift+Arrows in a text field (renaming a tile, the file editor) still select text there; inside a tile they focus and move tiles, so a terminal editor there (nano, micro, emacs) does not get them. With the Tiles setting off, Ctrl+Shift+G does nothing.

#Leaving the grid

Clicking the tab of a session that is not tiled (or picking it with Alt+1-9 or the session finder) shows that session on its own, the normal single view. The grid is remembered: the Tiles button or Ctrl+Shift+G brings it straight back. Going Home does the same. Narrowing the window below the desktop width also returns to the single view.

The grid is saved on this device and comes back when you reload the page, with its focus, zoom and column widths. A session that was closed in the meantime is simply left out.

Split shows the same logo, name and model above both of its panes.

The grid and Split are never open together: opening the grid turns an open split into two tiles, and Split is unavailable while the grid is open.

#Read next

• The Dashboard - the single view, tabs and the header.
• Keyboard Shortcuts - every binding.
• Settings Reference - where the Tiles setting lives.

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