Custom Pane Layout: terminal > source

DareEuler · May 22, 2026, 3:56am

Hello! Is it possible to customise the Pane Layout to the following?

So I want a terminal on the left side, source + console in the middle and the default right panels.
Thank you in advance!

GaryR · May 23, 2026, 6:17pm

Unfortunately not, the Terminal pane can only be in the same quadrant as the Console.

You can add a thumbs-up to this issue. More flexible layouts is one of the top requests. Can't make any promises, but it is something we'd like to do.

github.com/rstudio/rstudio

Fully customizable pane and window layouts

opened 06:45PM - 29 May 18 UTC

jmcphers

enhancement accessibility

Today, RStudio's pane layout always deals in quadrants. Two quadrants are occupi…ed by the Source and Console panes, and a second two by sets of tabs. The user can choose which panes appear in which quadrants. Most IDEs have a somewhat more flexible system which allows for arbitrary tab arrangement, often using mouse gestures to edit configuration on the fly -- docking to sides, splitting and tabbing, popping out to floating windows, etc. In the last few years several JavaScript libraries have been released which make this relatively straightforward to implement (at least from a UX standpoint). For example: https://phosphorjs.github.io/ - used by Jupyter http://www.dockspawn.com/ - with some design inspiration from Visual Studio http://golden-layout.com/ - emphasizes pleasing layouts & multi-screen Now that we're on GWT 2.8, we can use [JsInterop](http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsJsInterop.html), which will make it much more straightforward to blend our own tab internals with an external library.

DareEuler · May 24, 2026, 6:30pm

Thank you @GaryR !
I have added my thumbs-up, fingers crossed

system · May 31, 2026, 6:30pm

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