Layouts

Last updated: 9 September 2026

What it does

Layouts arrange your terminal panes on screen. StreamView has four modes, and your choice is saved per workspace.

Layout	Description	Best for
Grid	Equal-sized panes in rows and columns	Monitoring multiple similar processes
Main + Sidebar	One large pane with smaller panes stacked in a sidebar	A primary task with background monitors
Rows	Horizontal strips stacked vertically	Log monitoring and tailing
Single	Full-screen single terminal	Focused work or reading output

Switch layout — click a layout button in the toolbar.
Resize panes — drag the splitters between panes. Grid supports vertical and horizontal splitters; Main+Sidebar has a splitter between the main pane and the sidebar (and between sidebar items); Rows has horizontal splitters. Minimum pane sizes are enforced, and sizes reset to equal when streams are added, removed, or rotated.
Rotate streams — click the current layout's button again to rotate which stream sits in which position, or use the rotate buttons (⟲ ⟳). Shortcuts: Ctrl+] forward, Ctrl+[ backward.
Fullscreen — click the expand button on the pane header, or Ctrl+Shift+F11. Press again to return to your previous layout. Bare F11 used to do this and fired while you were typing; F1–F12 now go to the terminal. (Ctrl+Enter did the same through 2026.8.8; it was removed in 2026.8.9 because Claude Code uses it for newlines.)

A pane won't shrink further — minimum pane sizes are enforced so a pane can't collapse to nothing.
Pane sizes jumped back to equal — adding, removing, or rotating streams resets sizes to equal by design; resize again afterward.
The layout changed on its own — that was bare F11 (next to F12). It is no longer a layout toggle. Layout switches are view-only and never start a stopped stream; since 2026.8.8 each one is logged with its trigger in %LOCALAPPDATA%\StreamView\streamview.log.
Auto-hide taskbar does not appear over a maximized window — StreamView now leaves the taskbar's trigger edge free when the bar is set to auto-hide, so mousing to that edge still slides it out.

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