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<desc>Enable, add, remove and reorder <app>Terminal</app> tabs.</desc>
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<title>Use tabs</title>
<p>The tab bar is shown at the top a <app>Terminal</app> window that has
multiple tabs open (it looks like a row of buttons). Click on a tab to switch
to it. You can open multiple tabs to manage your work in <app>Terminal</app>.
This will allow you to multi-task with activities such as running programs,
browsing directories and editing text files in a single <app>Terminal</app>
window.</p>
<section id="add-tab">
<title>Open a new tab</title>
<p>To open a new tab inside your current <app>Terminal</app> window:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Press
<keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Ctrl</key><key>T</key></keyseq>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>
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<section id="rename-tab">
<title>Rename a tab</title>
<p>Each tab has an automatically assigned title. You can rename the tabs
individually:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Terminal</gui>
<gui style="menuitem">Set Title…</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Enter the desired <gui>Title</gui> that you wish to use for the tab.
This will overwrite any titles that would be set by terminal commands.
</p>
<note>
<p>It is not possible to set back the automatically set title once it
has been set for a tab. To see the title, you need to allow terminal
command titles to be shown in the <gui style="menuitem">Profile
Preferences</gui>.</p>
</note>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click <gui style="button">OK</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>-->
<section id="close-tab">
<title>Remove a tab</title>
<p>To close an existing tab inside your current <app>Terminal</app>
window:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Select
<guiseq><gui style="menu">File</gui><gui style="menuitem">Close
Tab</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>Alternatively, you can click on the <gui style="button">×</gui> in the
top right corner of the tab or right click on the tab and select
<gui style="menuitem">Close Terminal</gui>.</p>
</section>
<section id="reorder-tab">
<title>Reorder tabs</title>
<p>To change the ordering of tabs in a window:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Click and hold the left mouse button on the tab.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Drag the tab to the desired position among the other tabs.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Release the mouse button.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>The tab will be placed in the position closest to where you released the
tab, immediately beside other open tabs.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can reorder a tab by right clicking on a tab and
selecting <gui style="menuitem">Move Terminal Left</gui> to move the tab to
the left or <gui style="menuitem">Move Terminal Right</gui> to move the tab
to the right. This will reorder the tab position by moving it one place at
a time.</p>
</section>
<section id="move-tab-another-window">
<title>Move a tab to another <app>Terminal</app> window</title>
<p>If you want to move a tab from one window to another:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Click and hold the left mouse button on the tab.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Drag the tab to the new window.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Place it beside other tabs in the new window.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Release the mouse button.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<note style="tip">
<p>You can move a tab from one window to another by dragging the tab to
the <gui>Activities</gui> hot-corner of the <gui>GNOME Shell</gui>. This
will reveal each of the open <app>Terminal</app> windows. You can release
the tab that you are holding over the desired <app>Terminal</app>
window.</p>
</note>
</section>
<section id="move-tab-create-window">
<title>Move a tab to create a new <app>Terminal</app> window</title>
<p>To create a new window from an existing tab:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Click and hold the left mouse button on the tab.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Drag the tab out of the current <app>Terminal</app> window.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Release the mouse button.</p>
</item>
</steps>
</section>
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