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Six streams. Your layout.

Tabs hold the work, splits put it side by side, and nothing goes quiet when you look away. How to drive Loom's terminal layout.

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The pieces

Tabs, splits, and streams that keep running.

Tabs

A tab can hold a terminal on its own native PTY, an editor, or a web preview, so the whole workspace lives in one strip. Open as many as the work needs and jump between them without touching the mouse.

Splits

Split any pane to the right or down, then keep splitting. Horizontal and vertical splits compose, so the layout follows the task: a fleet terminal next to its diff, a dev server log under the preview.

Background streaming

Terminals keep streaming when they are not on screen. A fleet session never stalls or drops output because you switched tabs to read something else, and scrollback search still finds what it printed.

The moves

Bindings below use Cmd on macOS. On Windows and Linux the same shortcuts use Ctrl.

Open things. Cmd+T opens a new terminal tab, Cmd+E a new editor tab, Cmd+P a new preview tab. Cmd+W closes the focused tab or pane.
Split things. Cmd+D splits the current pane to the right, Cmd+Shift+D splits it down. Cmd+] and Cmd+[ move focus between panes.
Move around. Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab cycle tabs on every platform, and Cmd+1 through Cmd+9 jump straight to a tab by position.
Find things. Cmd+F searches the focused terminal's scrollback, including output it streamed while hidden.

Every binding lives in one registry and can be changed in settings. The keyboard shortcuts guide has the full map.

Questions

Layout, answered.

Can I watch a fleet terminal while I edit?

Yes. The six Claude Code sessions live in the same terminal as your own tabs, so split an editor next to a fleet pane and watch the session work while you read or type. Click into any fleet terminal and it is a real shell you can use.

Does a hidden tab stop streaming?

No. Output keeps flowing in the background for every terminal, visible or not. That is the point: six agents produce text constantly, and none of it should depend on which tab you happen to be looking at.

Are split panes real shells?

Every terminal pane is its own native PTY running your real shell, rendered through WebGL with true color. On Windows, each tab can even pick its own WSL distro, covered in the WSL guide.

Hand it the work.
Walk away.

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