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Panes and layout

You can use multiple panes to keep reference material visible while you work. For example, you can have an Issue view open next to a File tab or a Zide Assist chat session beside your branches view.

Panes

Panes contain the content tabs for your project. Content tabs are organized into one of three categories.

  • Work: Content that you are working on.
  • Chat: Conversations with Zide Assist or a CLI Agent.
  • Terminal: Terminals for text commands.

Each pane is assigned a tab category to determine which newly created content tabs open there. Panes can contain more than one category depending on the layout.

Zide automatically preserves your tab layout and split-pane configuration across sessions.

Layout presets

You can use layout presets to organize your panes and tabs. To apply a layout to Zide, click View and select one of four pre-designed layouts.

The default layout is Single Pane. You can change the default layout in Settings.

Advanced Pane Controls

To further edit the layout of Zide, click View > Advanced Pane Controls.

Split panes

With Advanced Pane Controls enabled, you can drag any content tab toward the edge of a pane to split the pane. You can drag the content tab to split up, down, left, and right to create a new pane.

Click View > Split Pane Right or View > Split Pane Down to create an empty pane.

To reset your workspace, select one of the layout presets.

Assign tab categories

With Advanced Pane Controls enabled, click a pane header to select the tab categories assigned to that pane. Selected tab categories determine which pane new content tabs open in. Changing the tab categories of a pane does not move content tabs to the pane.

Maximize panes

With Advanced Pane Controls enabled, you can maximize a pane to fill the entire content area and focus only on that pane. When a pane is maximized, all other panes are hidden but retain their state.

Double-click the pane header to maximize the pane. Double-click the pane header again to restore the pane to its original size.

Minimize panes

With Advanced Pane Controls enabled, you can minimize a pane to focus on other panes. When a pane is minimized, the pane retains its state.

Click the Minimize icon in the pane header to minimize the pane. The minimized pane shows a tab count badge. To restore the pane to normal, double-click the header.