Terminals & views

Quorum Terminal runs many independent terminals inside a single project, and gives you three ways to look at them. Each terminal is its own shell with its own scrollback and running agent, so you can keep a build, a test watcher, and a coding agent side by side without losing any of them.

Tabs, grid and Sessions

There are three views over the same set of terminals, and switching between them never restarts anything:

• Tab bar — one terminal at a time, with a tab per terminal across the top. Best when you want a single focused shell filling the pane.
• Grid — a tiled layout that shows several terminals at once, from a single 1x1 cell up to a dense 4x4. Useful for watching multiple agents or processes in parallel.
• Sessions — one focused active terminal alongside a compact list of every other terminal, so you can keep the rest in view while you work in one.

Splitting and adding terminals

New terminals are cheap. Create or arrange them with these shortcuts:

⌘ ⇧ N is context-aware: in a split or grid layout it divides the active terminal, otherwise it adds a fresh one.

Moving between terminals

Move focus without reaching for the mouse:

The number shortcuts follow the on-screen order, so ⌘ 1 is always the first terminal in the current view.

Capacity and restore

Quorum Terminal supports up to 32 terminals per project. New installs start with a 16-terminal limit; raise it to 24 or 32 in Settings. Terminals can also be brought back automatically the next time you launch — a Settings toggle, on by default for new installs, restores your previous layout and working directories. AI sessions are not auto-resumed, though: each restored terminal returns to a shell prompt, and you start or resume an agent yourself.

Tip: hitting the terminal limit usually means a separate project would serve you better than a higher cap — each project gets its own pool.

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