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Pan and zoom the canvas

Move around a large workspace, zoom in on your team, and bring the whole canvas into view.

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Pan across the workspace

Drag an empty part of the canvas to move the view. Your nodes stay where they are; only the camera moves. If a terminal has the keyboard, its scrollback receives the wheel. Hold Ctrl on Windows and Linux or ⌘ on macOS while scrolling to zoom the canvas instead.

TipStart a pan from open canvas between nodes. This keeps the gesture away from node controls and terminal text.

Choose a zoom level

Use the − and + controls beside the zoom percentage in the lower-right corner. You can also zoom with a trackpad gesture or the mouse wheel. The current percentage gives you a quick reference as you move between a close-up and a full workspace view.

Try it here

Hold Space and drag, or scroll, to pan. Hold Ctrl or Cmd and scroll to zoom. Shift and 1 fits everything. Arrow keys pan.

Step 1 of 3: Hold Space and drag to pan.
Click the canvas first. Scrolling pans too, and so does the middle button.

Find the whole canvas

Open the command palette and choose Fit all to frame your nodes. The minimap gives you another way to move: click a place on its map to center the canvas there, or drag the viewport marker to pan continuously.

LimitPanning and zooming are navigation. They do not create an undo step.

Keep scrolling in the right place

When a terminal is focused, normal scrolling belongs to its output. Use Ctrl + wheel on Windows and Linux, or ⌘ + wheel on macOS, when you mean to zoom the canvas around that terminal.

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