Creating Workspaces in Terminal

If you have read some of my other posts, you know that I like to have multiple terminal windows open whenever I am working.  This used to involve opening the Terminal app, and then opening multiple more windows.  Then I had to drag each window into the location that I wanted it to be at.  I later realized that I could have the Terminal app save my open windows as a Workspace, and could define a default workspace to be opened whenever Terminal is opened.

This is rather simple to do, and can be accomplished by following the steps below:

  1. Open Terminal.
  2. Open and arrange the windows that you want to save as the workspace.
  3. Once all windows are open and in the desired locations, click Window and then Save Windows as Group…
  4. To set the default Window group, enter the Preferences within Terminal (command + , ).
  5. In the Startup tab, change ‘On startup, open’ from ‘New window with settings:’ to ‘Window group’ and select the desired window group.


Now whenever you open Terminal, the selected Window group will load by default.

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