Open a terminal

The terminal panel sits at the bottom of every session view. You don’t have to set anything up to start using it.

Open and close

• Toggle the panel — press `Ctrl+“ (Control + backtick) inside the session, or click the terminal bar at the bottom of the transcript.
• Resize it — drag the divider at the top of the panel up or down. The height is remembered per session.
• Hide it — press `Ctrl+“ again, or click the collapse arrow on the panel header.

New terminals and tabs

Each session can have several terminals, shown as tabs along the top of the panel.

• New terminal — click the + at the right of the tab strip. The new terminal is pinned to the current session and inherits its working directory.
• Pin existing — the + menu also lists terminals that exist on the same host but were created from another session. Pin one to reuse it here without losing its history.
• Reorder — drag a tab left or right.
• Close a tab — the x on the tab. The shell process exits; its scrollback goes with it.

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 Ctrl+F with the terminal focused to open the find bar. It 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

Ctrl+K 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.)

Related topics

• Shared control across desktop and portal — when the same terminal is open in two windows.
• Customization — key sets and font.