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title: Tour of the window
description: What each part of the Ghostex window does.
---

![The Ghostex window: the sidebar, an agent chat under the header with Start, Open and Commit, and the Commands pane at the bottom](/docs/blume-assets/content/docs/images/window.png)

The window has three parts: the **sidebar** on the left, your **sessions** in the middle, and an optional **view panel** on the right.

## Sidebar

Your projects and their sessions. From top to bottom:

- **Top row**: hide the sidebar, search, the **Notifications** bell, and the **More Options** menu (Add Project, Sessions, Import Sessions, Search by Prompt, Agents Hub, All Automations, Mobile & Remote, Join Discord, Send Bug / Feedback, and New Window).
- **Computers**: **Local** is this computer. Other computers you connect appear next to it.
- **Spaces**: icons that group projects together, so you can focus on one set of work at a time (turn Spaces on in **Settings > Extensions > Store**).
- **Projects and sessions**: click a session to open it. Colored dots show its state (see below).
- **Bottom row**: **Commands** (Quick Access), your account usage meters, and the **Settings** gear. With Workspaces on, the workspace button sits here too.

| Dot    | Meaning                               |
| ------ | ------------------------------------- |
| Orange | The agent is working.                 |
| Blue   | The agent finished.                   |
| Pink   | The agent is waiting for your answer. |

## Sessions

The middle of the window shows the session you picked. Each session can show a **chat** or the raw **terminal** of the same agent. You can split the area to watch several sessions at once. See [Sessions](/basics/sessions).

The **header** above it shows where you are (project and session name) and, on the right:

- **Start**: run one of your saved Actions, such as `npm run dev` (turn Actions on in **Settings > Extensions > Store**).
- **Open**: open the project in another app, like your code editor or file manager.
- **Commit**: git actions such as commit, sync with main, and review.
- **⋯**: Ask Ghostex, Tips & Tricks, Resources, Dev servers, Extensions and Customize (see below).
- The last two buttons show or hide the **Commands** pane (a terminal below your sessions, Cmd+J, or F12 on Windows and Linux) and the **view panel**.

## View panel

Code, Browser, Docs, Kanban and Automate open here, beside your sessions, so your agents stay in view. Drag the divider to resize it. See [Views](/views/overview).

## The ⋯ menu

The **⋯** button in the header opens small panels that close when you click away:

- **Ask Ghostex**: sample questions for the [help chat](/ask-ghostex).
- **Tips & Tricks**: Ghostex's features, one card at a time. Its **Setup** reopens the first-launch setup.
- **Resources**: what Ghostex is running, with the CPU and memory of each session. Put sessions or the code editor to sleep from here.
- **Dev servers**: the development servers running on this computer and your other computers. A new Browser tab shows the same list.
- **Extensions**: your installed extensions.
- **Customize**: opens **Settings > Extensions > Store**, where you can hide any of these.

## More than one window

**File > New Window** (Cmd+Shift+N, Ctrl+Shift+N on Windows and Linux) opens another full Ghostex window, for a second monitor. It's also in More Options and Quick Access.

- Each window has its own sessions on screen, views, Commands pane and Browser tabs.
- Projects, sessions, settings and hotkeys are shared: a session started in one window shows in every window's sidebar.
- The same session can be open in two windows at once.
- **Cmd+`** moves between windows. Every open window comes back after a restart.

Closing a window closes its Commands pane terminals and cancels its Delayed Sends (it asks first). Agent sessions keep running. Closing the last window quits Ghostex.

:::tip[Ask Ghostex]
Not sure what a button does? Open **⋯ > Ask Ghostex** and ask "What does the Open button do?"
:::