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A roomier Term on PCs and 2-in-1s

On a PC or 2-in-1, Term's own tab row is now the window's title bar. One less bar at the top, more room for your terminal, and controls that sit naturally beside the window buttons.

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Also applies to a tablet with Free windows turned on.

The tab row is the title bar

Before, a Term window had two rows at the top: the system's title bar, and Term's own tabs under it. Now there is one. Your tabs sit right next to the minimise, maximise and close buttons, and the space they used to share goes to the terminal.

Everything you expect from a title bar still works:

Fold the host list, take the whole window

The button at the far left folds the host list away. The terminal then fills the window from edge to edge — the room you want for a coding agent, a log and a monitor side by side. Press it again to bring your hosts back.

Term on a 2-in-1 with the host list folded away. herdr fills the window: Claude Code fixing a bug on the left, btop showing the server's load at the top right, and the passing tests at the bottom right.
One window, three jobs. herdr running Claude Code, btop and a shell together — the tabs in the title bar, nothing else above the terminal. More about herdr in herdr on a phone.

tmux panes stay where they belong

If you split tmux side by side, the pane that scrolls now scrolls on its own. A busy log on the left no longer drags the panes beside it along, so your git history and test results stay readable while the log keeps running.

Term on a 2-in-1 running tmux in the whole window: a live log on the left, a git history at the top right, passing tests at the bottom right, and tmux's status bar along the bottom.
Your tmux, as you set it up. Status bar, pane borders and colours exactly as configured — and the log on the left scrolls without touching its neighbours. New to tmux? Start with Using tmux from a phone.

A window that keeps its layout

You can resize Term freely, but it stops before it gets so small that the host list and terminal can no longer sit side by side. That way it never suddenly turns into the phone layout under your mouse.

No keyboard button

A PC or 2-in-1 has its keyboard built in, so the button that shows the on-screen keyboard is gone. To switch between Chinese and English input, use the input method in the system tray, as in any other app.

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