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How can I get Nemo to always display the tab area, even when there is only one tab? #2324
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Description
(Nemo v4.4.2 in Mint 19.3 x64 Cinnamon 4.4.8)
In modern tabbed web browsers, you can have two windows open, each with a single tab open, and then drag one tab in to the other, and now you have one window open with two tabs.
This is not possible in Nemo, because although it is tabbed once several are open, when there's only one, there's no tab to grab, and no space in a window with only one open in to which to put a dragged tab.
How can I fix this behaviour?
Reacted by Steven Xu, Zulfikar, Josh, Wobblystep and Johannes Schöneberger
Activity
mtwebster commentedon Mar 21, 2020
I had started looking at this a while back, to start with a tab 'handle' open, and possible be able to open new tabs as well (like a browser). I'll see if we can get anywhere on this.
wschenck commentedon Apr 26, 2020
I have just opened a PR (#2364) to address this issue because I also like to have this feature. A working (but preliminary) version for nemo 3.8 is available under: https://github.com/wschenck/nemo/tree/3.8-show-tab-area
github-actions commentedon Mar 2, 2026
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github-actions commentedon Apr 5, 2026
This issue has been automatically closed due to inactivity.
If you can still reproduce this issue on a current version,
please feel free to reopen it with updated information.
Glitchtest51 commentedon Nov 8, 2026
Hey, I'm still interested in this feature request and would appreciate it if this feature request could be reopened. Thanks!