The owner's answers on moving tiles:
- "dont move the tile": an empty slot no longer takes a tile. A slot is
always the last cell, so a move there shifted every tile after it.
Each drop target now says what it accepts (_acceptTabDrops'
`accepts`): a tile takes any session but its own, an empty slot only a
session not tiled yet. A refused drag is still held (dropEffect none,
no highlight), and dropSessionOnSlot refuses a tiled session too, its
tab included. A session not tiled yet still joins on a slot.
- A cancelled drag changes nothing, focus included (best practice): the
header focuses its tile on click, never on press, so a drag that ends
with Escape or outside leaves focus and the idle alert alone. The body
keeps press-to-focus, so focus still moves before a press reaches
xterm. The rename input stops its own clicks.
- A tiled tab dropped on the zoomed tile stays refused (confirmed).
- The Alt+Shift+Arrow focus chords skip a text field too (best
practice), as the move chords already did: shifted arrows select
there. Toggle and zoom are not text-editing keys and are unchanged.
Docs: the wiki, the spec's as-built bullet (with the owner's answers),
the invariants and CLAUDE.md say so.
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Four rebindable registry chords in the Tiles group move the focused
tile: it trades places with the neighbour the Alt+Shift+Arrow focus
chords pick (tileInDirection), through the same _reorderTiles path as
the header drag, and keeps the focus. Nothing at an edge.
They go through tileShortcutFor()/runTileShortcut() like the other
tile chords, so every xterm key handler swallows them while they
apply: only while the grid is open, a zoomed grid included (a no-op
there, so the keys never reach the CLI), and never in a text field
other than xterm's own textarea, where Ctrl+Shift+Arrows select by
word.
Ctrl+Shift+Arrows because every other two-modifier arrow chord is
taken: Ctrl+Alt switches workspaces (GNOME, Xfce, some Windows
graphics drivers), Ctrl+Alt+Shift moves a window to another workspace
(GNOME, Cinnamon, Xfce), Super belongs to the desktop, Alt is the
browser's back and forward, Alt+Shift focuses tiles. No browser,
GNOME, KDE, macOS or Claude Code default uses Ctrl+Shift+Arrows; it
costs a terminal editor's word selection inside a tile while the grid
is open.
The Help modal lists the chords and the header drag; the shortcut
overlay lists the registry. zh-CN entries for every new string.
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Owner decision 8 ("when I hit the tiles button, open the tiles already!").
A click with the grid closed now opens it straight away, and Ctrl+Shift+G
runs the same function (toggleTileGrid), so the two cannot drift. What
opens comes from one pure helper, tileGridOpenSet (constants.js):
a. the grid this tab last had, if any of its sessions survive, opened
exactly (an open split closes and its sessions do not join);
b. else an open split's two sessions, Pane A focused;
c. else the open sessions in tab order (the picker's list: no detached
ones), up to what the grid takes here (the cap of 6, fewer when the
window fits fewer), the active session always among them and focused.
A click with the grid open still closes it.
The picker moved to right-click (oncontextmenu, browser menu suppressed).
With the grid open it is preselected with the current tiles, and Open
replaces them. Ctrl/Cmd+click on a tab with the grid closed opens the
toggle's set plus that session. The button's title, the Help modal and
the wiki say right-click chooses which sessions.
Docs: decision 8 and an as-built entry in the spec (Entry points too),
CLAUDE.md, the invariants (#tile-grid, Opening), the wiki's Tile Grid and
Keyboard Shortcuts pages.
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showTileGridButton gets the full per-device treatment Split has: a header
chip in App Settings beside Split, its load and save lines, OFF by default
(and in the handheld defaults), a member of the displayKeys merge policy,
stripped from the settings PUT and never declared in the .strict()
SettingsUpdateSchema (sending it would 400 the whole save).
The setting also gates the Ctrl+Shift+G toggle (the applied default while the
owner's answer is pending; one line in tileShortcutFor to change): OFF, the
chord is inert and reaches the terminal like any unbound key; ON, it opens and
closes the grid where one can open. A grid that is open however it was opened
(Ctrl/Cmd+click, a dropped tab, "Open group as tiles") keeps all its chords,
the toggle that closes it included.
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⤢ in a tile's header, or Alt+Shift+Enter (registry entry zoom-tile, applies
only while the grid is open and is swallowed before the Shift+Enter newline
gate), makes that tile fill the grid like tmux zoom. The other tiles stay
connected but hidden, so they measure nothing and send no resize; pressing it
again restores the grid and refits every tile, since the hidden ones have a
stale size. Zooming a tile that is not focused focuses it first (a human
selection).
As in tmux, moving focus to another tile restores the grid, and so does
removing the zoomed tile or adding one while a tile is zoomed by hand.
When the grid area cannot fit the tiles' minimum size, the grid zooms the
focused tile itself with a hint; that zoom follows focus and lifts once the
window fits again. A zoom the user chose is left alone.
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Shortcut registry (DEFAULT_SHORTCUTS, group Tiles, all rebindable):
- Toggle Tile Grid, Ctrl+Shift+G: opens the grid this tab last left (one step
back after a selection outside it), else an open split as two tiles, else
the active session as one tile; pressed again, back to the single view of
the focused session. xterm emits nothing for a shifted Ctrl letter; the
browser's find-previous is overridden only where the grid can open.
- Focus Tile Left/Right/Up/Down, Alt+Shift+Arrows: a human selection of the
tile in that direction.
- Remove Focused Tile, unbound: the session keeps running.
tileShortcutFor() decides whether a chord applies (the toggle wherever a grid
could open, the rest only while one is open, so outside the grid
Alt+Shift+Arrows reach the terminal untouched) and is registry-aware. The
capture handler dispatches it, and the main terminal's and every tile's xterm
key handler return false for it, for every event type and before the
Shift+Enter gate, so a chord that applies never reaches a PTY.
Coexistence with the split pane: opening the grid over an open split closes
it (no wasted resize for the pane about to park) and seeds the grid with both
of its sessions, Pane A focused. While the grid is open openSplitPicker and
openSplitPane refuse and the Split button reads as unavailable
(aria-disabled); closing the grid never reopens a split.
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