---
name: "tabbed"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "suckless-tools"
version: "48-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tabbed"
---

# tabbed(1)

generic tabbed interface

## NAME

tabbed - generic tabbed interface

## SYNOPSIS

**tabbed** \[**-c**\] \[**-d**\] \[**-k**\] \[**-s**\] \[**-v**\] \[**-g** *geometry*\] \[**-n** *name*\] \[**-p** \[**s**{+/-}**\]***pos***\]** \[**-o** *normbgcol*\] \[**-O** *normfgcol*\] \[**-t** *selbgcol*\] \[**-T** *selfgcol*\] \[**-u** *urgbgcol*\] \[**-U** *urgfgcol*\] \[**-r** *narg*\] \[*command ...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**tabbed** is a simple tabbed container for applications which support XEmbed. Tabbed will then run the provided command with the xid of tabbed as appended argument. (See EXAMPLES.) The automatic spawning of the command can be disabled by providing the -s parameter. If no command is provided tabbed will just print its xid and run no command.

## OPTIONS

- **-c**

  close tabbed when the last tab is closed. Mutually exclusive with -f.

- **-d**

  detaches tabbed from the terminal and prints its XID to stdout.

- **-f**

  fill up tabbed again by spawning the provided command, when the last tab is closed. Mutually exclusive with -c.

- **-g** *geometry*

  defines the X11 geometry string, which will fixate the height and width of tabbed. The syntax is \[=\]\[*width*{xX}*height*\]\[{+-}*xoffset*{+-}*yoffset*\]. See [**XParseGeometry**(3)](/XParseGeometry/3.md) for further details.

- **-k**

  close foreground tabbed client (instead of tabbed and all clients) when WM\_DELETE\_WINDOW is sent.

- **-n** *name*

  will set the WM\_CLASS attribute to *name.*

- **-p** \[**s**{+-}\]***pos***

  will set the absolute or relative position of where to start a new tab. When *pos* is is given without 's' in front it is an absolute position. Then negative numbers will be the position from the last tab, where -1 is the last tab. If 's' is given, then *pos* is a relative position to the current selected tab. If this reaches the limits of the tabs; those limits then apply.

- **-r** *narg*

  will replace the *narg* th argument in *command* with the window id, rather than appending it to the end.

- **-s**

  will disable automatic spawning of the command.

- **-o** *normbgcol*

  defines the normal background color. #*RGB*, #*RRGGBB*, and X color names are supported.

- **-O** *normfgcol*

  defines the normal foreground color.

- **-t** *selbgcol*

  defines the selected background color.

- **-T** *selfgbcol*

  defines the selected foreground color.

- **-u** *urgbgcol*

  defines the urgent background color.

- **-U** *urgfgbcol*

  defines the urgent foreground color.

- **-v**

  prints version information to stderr, then exits.

## USAGE

- **Mod-Shift-Return**

  open new tab

- **Mod-Shift-h**

  previous tab

- **Mod-Shift-l**

  next tab

- **Mod-Shift-j**

  move selected tab one to the left

- **Mod-Shift-k**

  move selected tab one to the right

- **Mod-Shift-u**

  toggle autofocus of urgent tabs

- **Mod-Tab**

  toggle between the selected and last selected tab

- **Mod-\`**

  open dmenu to either create a new tab appending the entered string or select an already existing tab.

- **Mod-q**

  close tab

- **Mod-u**

  focus next urgent tab

- **Mod-\[0..9\]**

  jumps to nth tab

- **F11**

  Toggle fullscreen mode.

## EXAMPLES

$ tabbed surf -e

- $ tabbed urxvt -embed

  - $ tabbed xterm -into

  - $ xid=$(tabbed -d);urxvt -embed $xid

  - $ tabbed -r 2 st -w '' -e tmux

  ## CUSTOMIZATION

**tabbed** by default uses Ctrl as Mod key and can be customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.

Debian also provides the **tabbed.meta** alternative which uses the Windows key as Mod key.

## AUTHORS

See the LICENSE file for the authors.

## LICENSE

See the LICENSE file for the terms of redistribution.

## SEE ALSO

[**st**(1)](/st/1.md),

## BUGS

Please report them.