Using the app
The workspace
Every panel is a widget you can move, resize, hide or bring back. The arrangement is yours and the app never rewrites it behind your back.
Moving and resizing
Drag a widget by its title bar and resize it from the bottom-right corner. Widgets snap to a grid so edges stay aligned. While you are dragging, a boundary line shows how much fits on one screen.
When a widget would land on top of another, the terminal pushes the neighbour in one direction if there is room, and otherwise puts your widget back where it came from. It never scatters the rest of the screen to make space.
Undo and Redo sit in the top bar. If a drag went somewhere you did not intend, undo restores the previous arrangement exactly.
Turning widgets on and off
The Widgets control in the top bar lists every panel with a count such as
7/7, so you can always see how many are hidden. Hiding a widget is part of the
layout, which means a saved layout remembers what was switched off.
Built-in layouts
The layout dropdown ships with three arrangements:
| Layout | Built for | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Landscape | A wide monitor | The default. Everything visible at once. |
| Portrait | A portrait monitor, or an iPad held upright | Stacked for a tall screen. |
| Compact | Small windows | Hides the heatmap, rolling totals and the top 10 comparison. |
On the desktop app, picking one of these also resizes the window to the shape it was drawn for — 1600×900, 900×1600 and 1280×720 respectively. The size appears next to each name so you can see what you are about to get. Compact is sized so that its four widgets fill a 1280×720 window exactly, with no scrolling.
Those numbers are measured against 2560×1440. 1600 is the landscape default because most monitors are between 1920 and 2560 wide, and a 1600-wide window leaves room around itself while still letting the arrangement open up properly.
Saving your own layouts
Save & manage layouts stores the current arrangement under a name. Saved layouts can be starred, which puts them in the top bar for one-click switching.
On Windows, saving a layout also records the window size and selecting it later restores that size (never below 900×720). The figure is the drawing area, not the outer frame, so it matches what the layout was arranged against. A browser tab cannot resize itself, so on the web this part is skipped — and overwriting a layout from a browser will not erase a size you saved earlier on the desktop.
Locking the grid
Layout editing on / off freezes the arrangement. With editing off, dragging inside a widget does what the widget expects instead of moving the panel — worth turning on once your screen is how you want it.
The rest of the top bar
- Fullscreen hides the browser or window chrome.
- Mute silences every sound in the app at once, including alarms and the cascade alert.
- Settings opens the global settings dialog. Widget-specific options live behind the small gear on each panel instead.
The global mute is exactly that. If you are relying on the alarm center to wake you, check that the top bar is not muted.
Resetting
Each widget with a gear has its own Reset this widget, which restores only that widget’s options and leaves everything else alone. A full reset lives in Settings.