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D-1302Terminals

Open a terminal

How to open, tab, split, and close terminals in a workspace, and the keys that work inside them.

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Terminals open as tabs in a workspace, next to its sessions and files. You don’t have to set anything up to start using them.

Open, switch, and close

  • New terminal — press Ctrl+` (Control + backtick), or click the + at the right of the tab strip and pick a shell or agent preset. The terminal opens in the focused pane and inherits the workspace’s working directory.
  • Switch tabs — Cmd+Shift+] / Cmd+Shift+[ (Ctrl+Shift+] / Ctrl+Shift+[ on Windows and Linux) move to the next or previous tab, and Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 (Alt+1 to Alt+9 on Windows and Linux) jump straight to a tab.
  • Split — Cmd+D splits the focused pane to the right and Cmd+Shift+D splits it downward. Move between panes with Cmd+Option+Shift+Right and Cmd+Option+Shift+Left.
  • Reorder — drag a tab left or right, or into another pane.
  • Close a tab — the x on the tab, or Cmd+W on macOS. A running shell asks for confirmation first; the shell process exits and its scrollback goes with it. On Windows and Linux, Ctrl+W inside a terminal goes to the shell, so close the tab with the x or from the command palette.

See Keyboard shortcuts for the full list.

Working directory

A new terminal starts in the session’s working directory. If the session was started in ~/code/myapp, that’s where the shell prompt opens. From there it behaves like any other shell — cd wherever you want.

The working directory of an existing terminal does not change when you switch sessions or pin it to a new one. Only newly created terminals inherit the current session’s directory.

Selecting, copying, pasting

Standard terminal selection works:

  • Drag to select. The selection copies to your clipboard automatically when you release on macOS, or with Ctrl+Shift+C on Windows and Linux.
  • Paste with Cmd+V (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+V (Windows / Linux).
  • Click and drag with Alt (or Option) to make a rectangular selection.

Find within scrollback

Press Cmd+F (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+F (Windows and Linux) with the terminal focused to open the find bar. Plain Ctrl+F stays with the shell. The find bar supports:

  • Case-sensitive matching.
  • Whole word matching.
  • Regex patterns.

Results are highlighted inline; press Enter to step through them. Close the find bar with Esc.

Clearing

Cmd+K (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+K (Windows and Linux) clears the terminal view. Glueprint also drops its replay buffer for that terminal so a reload comes back empty. (Use the shell’s own clear if you only want the visible buffer wiped.) In a terminal, Cmd+K clears rather than opening the command palette; use F1 for the palette there.