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Questions tagged [tabs]

Tabs in a GUI window. Use the whitespace, text-formatting, or CSV tags if your question involves the tabulation (tab) character.

A tab is a panel in a window, tyipcally chosen via a row of labels at the top (or sometimes a column of labels on the side). For example, many web browsers support multiple tabs in the same window, each showing one web page and having its own history.

For tab characters, see .

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Switch between tabs in gnome-terminal with keyboard?

Once I've created a new tab in gnome-terminal with Ctrl+Shift+t, how can I switch back and forth between the tabs using the keyboard? For example, in Google Chrome the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Tab (forward) and Ctrl+Shift+Tab (backward). I'm using…
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How to print strings separated by TAB in bash?

I am trying to print two string separated by a TAB. I have tried: echo -e 'foo\tbar' printf '%s\t%s\n' foo bar Both of them print: foo bar Where the whitespace between the two is actually 5 spaces (as per selecting the output with mouse in…
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Is there a window manager that allows tabs of multiple different programs in one window? (Like Windows 10 Sets)?

I installed the Windows 10 preview releases awhile back because I wanted to try the Sets feature that was being worked on. Sadly, this was removed from the beta releases, and has not returned. Is there a Linux window manager that has this…
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Switch between windows & tabs in Linux?

do we have keyboard shortcuts to switch between tabs or windows, am looking for shortcuts similar to of those available in windows (ctrl + tab to switch btw tabs & Alt + tab to swtich btw windows). Note: RHEL5.8 is accessed via CITRIX XENAPP as a…
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How to know current tab width of terminal?

I know tabs command can be used to set the tab width of the terminal, but how can I know current tab width of the terminal (assuming the tabs are equidistant)? I can't find related information in tabs manual, do I miss something?
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set tab color in a tabbed terminal emulator

I would like to set in my terminal emulator (i.e. gnome-terminal) the color of the tabs like in the osx's terminal emulator. Is there this feature in any of the linux terminal emulator plethora? EDIT: below a picture to better explain the desired…
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Shells in tabbed windows in a terminal

I want to do tabbed terminal stuff without having actual tab windows in my terminal application. Is there any good way to do this within bash? It would come in very handy with SSH if I could avoid signing in twice.
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How do I open the current directory in a new tab?

My environment Terminal.app 2.9.4 on macOS zsh 5.7.1 When I used bash, Terminal could open current directory in a new tab, but it have not been able to do that since I changed to zsh. In the app setting, even though it is set as "Same Working…
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Open files in new tab for nano

In my folder I have a bunch of .cpp files. I use nano for editing my files. Is there a way for me to be able to write a single command and open all the .cpp files in different tabs? If I do nano *.cpp, the next file opens after I close the current…
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Make new tabs appear from left to right, to the right of the parent, in Chrome

I'd like to make Chrome a bit smarter, or at least a bit more convenient, regarding the position of new tabs. For a long time, the behavior of Chrome was ok, if not always ideal. When opening a page in a new tab starting from a tab T₀ (e.g. with a…
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How to make 'emacs' indent with tabs exactly how 'nano' does...?

How can I configure ~/.emacs so that I indent how nano does by default? Uses a tab character instead of 5 spaces I can add as many tabs to a line as I please
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Open Konsole sessions (tabs) in two distict windows

I have a script that opens Konsole sessions for me to work with, it looks like: konsole --profile $1 --new-tab -p tabtitle="k1" -e ./jpax_remote.sh cc1 konsole --profile $1 --new-tab -p tabtitle="k2" -e ./jpax_remote.sh cc2 konsole --profile $1…
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How to send Alt+1 to CLI when multiple tabs are open in gnome-terminal?

Both ranger and the gnome-terminal use Alt + 1, Alt + 2 etc to switch to the corresponding tab. So if a gnome-terminal window only has one tab and ranger is open, then pressing Alt + 2 will go the second tab in ranger, but as soon as a second tab in…
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How to track all shortcut keys pressed and the process they interact with?

For a while now and for some reason I find myself in the unpleasant situation of Ctrl-w not working anymore in any program, which means I need the mouse any time I want to close a tab. I tried checking general Debian keyboard shortcuts, input method…
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Value is required after -x (--tabs)

I try to use "man command" but terminal gives me this output "Value is required after -x (--tabs)". What is this?
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