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How to auto-hide the TabStack tab bar

Published by BetterStage · Instructions for our macOS app; detailed feature reference is linked below.

Steps

  1. 1

    Open Settings → Window Modes → Appearance and turn on Auto-hide in Tab Bar.

  2. 2

    Windows now fill the whole pane. A small handle shows which edge holds the tabs.

  3. 3

    Move the pointer to that edge of the window to reveal the tab bar. Turn Auto-hide off to bring back the reserved bar.

More detail: /docs/tabstack

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