Developers lose their place in crowded terminal tabs and panes
Developers juggling multiple terminal sessions want to rearrange panes, identify tabs, switch focus, and temporarily enlarge a pane to inspect output. Requests across WezTerm, VS Code, and Linux terminals point to missing or awkward controls, while process-driven titles can overwrite labels. Today’s controls and extension options vary by terminal, so a fix that works across all of them would be difficult; users fall back on memorized shortcuts, commands, or app-specific workflows.
For developers juggling multiple terminal sessions. Mentioned from Apr 2018 to Apr 2026 on GitHub and Stack Exchange.
7 different people described this problem in 5 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.0/10
- Frequency
- 7.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I use kitty right now but this would be the reason I'd switch to wez. I used iterm2 before and dragging was natural. Tbh I still have to lookup the kitty shortcut to reorder panes each and every time I want to
I would like top have both, meaning the tool would still use the title as its status indicator, but in addition I would have another way to name the terminal
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