

The Edit Current Session panel lets you modify the appearance of a single session. You can customize these indicators in Preferences > Appearance. When the session ends, a ⃠ icon appears in the tab. An activity indicator means new out is being received. Tab labels have indicators that tell you their status.
#ITERM NEW TAB CODE#
Some systems are configured to augment this with additional information such as the hostname you're logged in to or your current directory (this is done by sending a special code of ESC]0 string ^G). You can drag tabs from one window to another, and you can drag a tab from a window into a new window by dropping it outside any iTerm2 window's tab bar.īy default, the label of each tab is the name of the job that's running in that session.

Note that you can drag and drop tabs to reorder them within a window. Tabs in iTerm2 behave like tabs in other programs, most notably web browsers like Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome. If you want to open more that one session at a time, you have a few options: You can create a new window (Shell > New Window), you can create a new tab (Shell > New Tab), or you can split the current session into two panes (Shell > Split Horizontally, Shell > Split Vertically), each of which is a separate session. When you first start iTerm2, a window opens showing a terminal session.
