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Workspaces
Keep separate sets of tabs, each with its own name, icon and colour, and use containers to sign in to two accounts on one site.
A workspace is a set of tabs with its own name, icon and colour: one for work, one for home, one for a trip. A window shows one workspace at a time. Switching hides the other workspaces’ tabs without closing them, and your Essentials stay in every workspace.
Luma starts with one workspace. Its colour follows the accent colour you choose in Settings › Appearance, until you give it a colour of its own. While it is the only one, Luma shows nothing of workspaces except the + to create another: no workspace buttons, no name above the tabs, no workspace colour on the window.
Create a workspace
- Click + (at the foot of the sidebar or in the dock, after the workspace buttons), or choose New workspace from the ⋯ menu.
- Type a name. Choose an icon, or keep the first letter of the name, and a colour.
- If you have containers (see below), choose one under Container, or leave Default (no container).
- Choose Create.
A new workspace starts empty. To start one with tabs you already have, select them, right-click and choose Move to new workspace…. In the sidebar you can also drag tabs onto +.
The workspace’s colour
As soon as there is a second workspace, the buttons of all of them appear, and the colour of the workspace you’re in marks the window in a few precise places: a thin line over the top of the page, a mark on the current tab (in the sidebar and with tabs on top) and a faint tint of the dock. Only the current workspace’s button shows its colour. When you switch, the colour slides to the next one. In the sidebar, the workspace’s name also sits above its tabs.
Switch workspaces
| How | Where |
|---|---|
| Click the workspace’s button | Dock and sidebar |
| Ctrl+Alt+→ and Ctrl+Alt+← | Next and previous, in every layout |
| Ctrl+Alt+1 … Ctrl+Alt+9 | The first nine workspaces, in every layout |
| Swipe sideways with two fingers over the tabs | Sidebar, on a touchpad |
| Turn the mouse wheel over the workspace buttons | Sidebar |
| Pick it at the top of the ⋯ menu | Tabs on top and dock |
| Ctrl+K, then type its name | Every layout |
Edit, duplicate or delete a workspace
Right-click a workspace’s button for Edit workspace…, Duplicate, New workspace and Delete workspace. With tabs on top, Edit workspace… is in the ⋯ menu.
Deleting asks you to confirm with Yes, delete. The workspace’s tabs aren’t closed: they move to the first workspace. Right after, choose Undo in the message that appears, or Reopen “…” in the ⋯ menu, to bring the workspace back; that works until you close Luma. The last workspace can’t be deleted.
Containers: two accounts on one site
A container keeps its own cookies, logins and site data. Give two workspaces two different containers and you can be signed in to the same site with two accounts at once, one in each workspace.
- Open Settings › Containers. Under New container, type a name, such as “Work”, and choose Add. Make a second one the same way.
- Right-click a workspace’s button, choose Edit workspace…, pick a container under Container and choose Save. Do the same for the other workspace with the other container.
- New tabs in each workspace now open in its container. Sign in to the site in one workspace with one account, and in the other with the other.
A tab can also change container on its own: right-click it and choose Reopen in “…”, or right-click a link and choose Open link in “…”. To always open a site in the same container, use Always open … in “…” in the tab’s menu, or Sites assigned to containers in Settings › Containers. For completely separate browsers, each with its own history and extensions, use profiles.
Hide the workspace buttons
Turn off Settings › Appearance › Layout › Show workspaces to hide the workspace buttons and the + from the dock and the sidebar. Your workspaces stay: switch with Ctrl+Alt+→ and Ctrl+Alt+←, or with the command palette (Ctrl+K).