Sessions & terminal
Split & tile panes
Transit tiles sessions like a modern terminal: split any tab into a grid of resizable panes — side by side or stacked, nested as deep as you like — and mix SSH, serial console, and local shells in a single layout. Useful when you’re cross-referencing two devices (a switch and the firewall in front of it), or driving a device over SSH while watching its console.
Split a pane
- Right-click the tab (or open its header menu).
- Choose Split right to place the new pane beside the current one, or Split down to stack it below.
- Pick what goes in the new pane — another device from your inventory, a console cable, or a local shell.
Each pane can itself be split again, so you can build arbitrary layouts: two panes over one, a 2×2 grid, a column of three — whatever the task needs.
Tile a tab by dragging
Already have the session open in another tab? Drag that tab and drop it onto a pane to tile it into that spot instead of opening a fresh session. The pane you drop onto splits to make room and the dragged session moves in.
Resize
Drag any divider between panes to resize. Splits are proportional, so resizing the window keeps the ratios.
Collapse the grid
Close a pane — its Disconnect / close control — and the grid collapses to fill the gap automatically. Keep closing panes until one is left and you’re back to a single-pane tab.
This supersedes the old model, where a tab could only split right, once, with no way to un-split. Splits now go right or down, nest to any depth, and collapse when you close a pane.
Works across every transport
A single tiled tab can hold SSH sessions, a serial console session, and local shells side by side — handy when you’re driving a device over SSH while watching its console, or keeping a local shell next to a remote one.
What’s the same in every pane
- Each pane keeps its own scrollback, search overlay, and paste confirmation.
- Per-device preferences (syntax highlighting, quick copy/paste, accent colour) apply per pane, based on that pane’s device.
- Press Enter in an ended pane to reconnect it in place; the other panes are unaffected.
Tiling is a layout convenience, not a backend concept: the AI still sees each SSH or console pane as an independent open session — and never sees a local-shell pane at all, since the local terminal is invisible to it.