Interface

The window has three columns and a status bar: the Projects sidebar on the left, tabs and panes in the center, and the right dock on the right. Everything opens as a center tab: files, diffs, pull requests, transcripts, browsers and settings.

Projects sidebar

⌘ B shows or hides the sidebar; ⌘ ⇧ B moves the keyboard into it.

• Title strip: the Rexa version, the update badge, and a collapse button.
• Projects header: New worktree (⌘ ⇧ N) and Open project (⌘ O).
• Tree: project → worktree → agent cards. See Projects and worktrees and Sessions.
• Bottom: Keymap, Extensions and Settings buttons.

Drag the sidebar’s edge to resize it.

Tabs and panes

Each worktree has its own tabs. A tab holds a console, an editor, a preview, a diff, a browser or a page such as Settings.

• Temporary tabs: a single click on a file opens it in an italic tab that the next click replaces. Double-click, edit, or Keep Open to keep it.
• Pin a tab from its right-click menu. Pinned tabs show a pin.
• Panes: ⌘ \ adds a column. Drag the divider to resize.
• Middle-click closes a tab. ⌘ ⇧ T reopens the last closed tab.

Action	Shortcut
New tab	⌘ T
New tab of a chosen kind	⌘ N
Next / previous tab	⌃ Tab / ⌃ ⇧ Tab
Go to tab 1–8, last tab	⌘ 1 … ⌘ 8, ⌘ 9
Previously used tab	⌃ 6
Move tab right / left	⌘ ⌥ ⇧ → / ←
Close tab or split	⌘ W

⌘ T opens a console unless Settings → Launch new tab names something else. Consoles split further inside a tab; see Terminal.

Right dock

⌘ R shows or hides the right dock; ⌘ ⇧ R moves the keyboard into it. It shows one panel at a time, and each worktree remembers its panel and width.

Panel	Shortcut	Shows
Agents	⌘ ⇧ A	Installed agents and sessions. Sessions
Files	⌘ ⇧ E	The file tree. Files and search
Search	⌘ ⇧ F	Project-wide search and replace.
Git	⌘ ⇧ G	Changes, compare and history. Git
Forge	⌘ ⇧ U	Pull requests, issues and CI runs. Pull requests

A panel shortcut pressed while you are already in that panel returns the keyboard to the center. Right-click the dock’s icon strip to reorder or pin panels; Search is unpinned by default, so its icon appears only while it is open.

Floating terminal

⌘ J shows a terminal panel over any view. See Terminal.

Palettes

Shortcut	Opens	Prefix
⌘ P	Files. path:line:col opens at a position.	/
⌘ ⇧ P	Commands, with their shortcuts.	>
⌘ E	Live agent sessions, grouped by worktree.	@
⌘ ⇧ W	Worktrees, grouped by project.	~
⌘ N	New tab: a console, an agent or a browser.

Type a prefix at the start of an empty query to switch modes. ⌫ on an empty query or Esc steps back. Results stop at 100.

Status bar

Item	Shows
Project and branch	The active worktree, its branch and changed-file count.
Agent usage	Plan usage for Claude and Codex, when available.
Problems	Error and warning counts. Click for the list.
Language servers	One item per running server. Click for controls.
Editor mode	The Vim mode, when Vim is on.
Comments	Saved comments waiting to be sent.
Resources	Anything over its CPU or memory budget. Resource monitor

Right-click the bar to hide items. rexa: toggle status bar hides the whole bar.

Zen mode

rexa: toggle zen mode closes both docks and hides the status bar. Run it again to restore what was showing.

Text size

⌘ = and ⌘ - change the text size everywhere in half-point steps; ⌘ 0 resets it to 13.5.

Focus marker

A small triangle in the top-right corner marks the region that has the keyboard. Turn it off with focus_marker in Settings.

What a relaunch restores

Rexa saves its layout as you work and restores it on the next launch:

• The window, projects, their order, names and folding, and hidden worktrees.
• Per worktree: panes, tabs and pinned tabs, console splits, the right dock panel, the floating terminal, unsaved editor changes and unsent comments.
• Agent cards and their order.

Terminals keep running in the background while Rexa is closed and reattach on launch. Zen mode is not restored.