In the last 18 months or so my terminal use has exploded. From being a place where I mostly navigated the file system, ran a server and did some very light nvim use, to my entire workspace, connected to multiple machines, where I spend most of my day.
This is the starting point we're using for designing the @superlogical multiplexer, and we're borrowing ideas from another app that blurs the local and remote, long lived sessions and throwaway tabs: the web browser.
And the first thing I wanted to borrow: favicons, for your terminal apps.
We call it the Deck icon (like a deck of cards), since it needs to represent your own layout of (potentially) multiple running processes.
Sir I beg you for stacked panes. One of the biggest problems with many multiplexers that really only Zellij got right is that there are often processes I just need tucked away somewhere in a drawer, to check back on occasionally.
Aug 4, 2026 · 11:45 AM UTC
Yes I use both a lot! I tend to favor floating panes for two things:
- A shell for random stuff. Often I will *only* have a shell prompt open in a floating pane.
- Ephemeral background tasks like a long-running test suite or typecheck if I’m doing it manually.
Stacked panes are typically dedicated to server logs, which I’ll have going all day, lazygit for a project, Vim, etc. I’ll often then have an agent open in a split as my primary focus.
I’ll usually have one tab of these setups per project.
All of this said, things are changing fast and flexibility is really the most valuable thing here.
