Merge split terminal tab back into one terminal

Question

In a terminal window, I can use File > Open Tab to get two tabs in the same window.
Then, if I move the terminal up to the top of the OS, those two tabs become two separated windows.

How can I merge those two windows back to one (like I had before)?

For this kind of advanced manipulation of terminals I recommend using Tilix — alfC, Feb 25 '21 at 19:36

htorque · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-16T09:20:25.917

74

I don't think that's possible.

What you can do: create a new tab in the window that you want to merge into the first one, then choose the first tab and drag it to that window and close the other window.

The process would look like:

[window] → [[tab][tab]] → [window] [window] → [window] [[tab][tab]] → [[tab][tab]] [window] → [[tab][tab]].

Confused? - Here is a clip showing the process. ;-)

edited May 16 '11 at 09:20

answered May 16 '11 at 08:30

htorque

64,798

I'll +1 you if you make that into a video :-D – Rinzwind May 16 '11 at 08:49
8

This solution doesn't seem to work anymore as tabs cannot be moved out of a window as of gnome-terminal 3.22. – jnns Feb 03 '17 at 13:53
This does not look like working if your destination window already has multiple tabs. – Dunatotatos Nov 19 '17 at 11:45
1

@Dunatotatos It worked for me when destination window had multiple tabs. Ubuntu 16.04. – wisbucky Feb 21 '18 at 21:41
you're a genius! – Arman Yeghiazaryan Mar 22 '18 at 17:56
8

This doesn't seem to work for me on Ubuntu 18.04 / GNOME Terminal 3.28.2 – Greg Kramida Mar 03 '19 at 13:56
2

I can't drag a tab anywhere outside of the current terminal (Ubuntu 20.04). – Kvothe Mar 10 '21 at 11:30
Confirmed: works in XFCE4 with xfce4-terminal. Thank you!! – Maxim May 09 '21 at 19:50

score 25 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 07:01

25

This might be an old thread but Im adding this incase someone stumbles onto this thread looking for the answer.

Add a new empty tab to the terminal you want to move.
Grab the tab of the terminal you want to move, and drag it to the terminal window you want this terminal in.
Delete the previous terminal window
you should now have the terminals merged back into one

answered Jun 05 '14 at 07:01

Steve

351
3
2

Tested to work with Xubuntu 16.04.1 and xfce4-terminal 0.6.3. – Jaakko May 04 '17 at 11:07
1

I think this is actually the same solution as htorque's, but this one is easier to understand. – wisbucky Feb 21 '18 at 21:42
1 This worked for me, and was easy to understand.

Bogatyr

Apr 03 '18 at 11:27

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 05 '19 at 19:46

Re @greg-kramida's comment on the accepted answer, the gnome-terminal Gitlab says this feature was "disabled in commit 10e164d8 due to an underlying GTK+ bug sometimes causing a crash[...]. We'd be more than happy to re-enable it once that bug is fixed." ("That bug" is still open, but the gnome-terminal bug was closed.)

There appears to be a patch for gnome-terminal in the Debian version of the report but I haven't tried to apply it.

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered May 16 '11 at 11:42

If you're already at this stage, you might want to consider Terminator. It's not nearly as scary as its screenshots suggest. It's great for having multiple terminals nested in one physical window. You can have tabs, broadcast (where your input goes to all the terminals) and you can move things around (although, not window-to-window).

I guess the idea with this is, after you get used to it, you never need more than one window.

sudo apt-get install terminator

Merge split terminal tab back into one terminal

4 Answers4

Linked

Related