Panes and Layout

NEXUS arranges terminals, bit pages, canvas previews, and a shared music player as panes in a single window, and remembers how you left them.

1. Open a second session

There's no separate "split" command — start a second session (New Session, ⌘T, or Start Shell for another agent) and NEXUS splits your current pane to make room, sizing the new one to fit.

You will see: two panes side by side. If the window is too small to add another pane at a readable size, NEXUS instead fits it wherever there's room, or grows the grid.

2. Try a grid layout

Beyond a single pane, NEXUS offers three explicit presets — 2, 3, or 4 Columns — from the Session menu, the toolbar's layout control, or the Command Palette (⌘P).

You will see: your panes redistribute into the chosen column count. Choosing 4 Columns on a narrow window may render fewer than four if there isn't room for every pane at a readable size.

3. Toggle Focus Mode

Press ⌘J. Focus Mode expands the pane you're in to fill the window; press ⌘J again to restore the grid exactly as it was — Focus Mode only ever changes what's displayed, not the underlying layout.

4. Resize and switch

Drag the divider between two panes to resize just those two. A workspace selector and a row of workspace tabs switch which workspace is active; each workspace keeps its own pane arrangement, last-active session, and sidebar state, so switching never bleeds one workspace's layout into another's.

5. Check the Inspector

The Inspector is a side panel, not a pane in the grid — it shows details and quick actions for whatever's currently selected, plus live CPU and memory information at all times. Toggle it with ⌃⌘I; it auto-collapses on a narrow window and restores when you widen it.

Terminal appearance and sharing

A pane's own menu lets you set a custom window color and background from preset swatches, and Settings ▸ Agents ▸ Visual Effects has an optional glow tied to a terminal's recent output — off by default. The terminal's font size is shown, not adjustable, in this release; see the Settings reference.

Right-click a terminal and choose Share Terminal… to open that session in its own window. The new window shows the same live session, so you can keep a long-running command visible on a second display while you work in the main window.

The underlying model supports a second participant observing read-only, with one "driver" typing at a time and control handed over in two steps rather than instantly. There is no transport today for anyone outside this app to attach, so in practice Share Terminal is a second local view of your own session rather than a way to collaborate with someone else.

Next

Continue to The Neural Map.

Where to go next

• Window & Panes guide — the full Inspector, terminal sharing, and layout-persistence contract.
• Keyboard Shortcuts reference — every shortcut used on this page, and everything else NEXUS binds by default.