How can I hide or remove the split-pane bar on the right in Mac terminal?

Question

What do I need to do to remove the split pane sidebar on the right from the terminal window? Never used to have it and now I don't know how to get rid of it.

Solution 1

I found out what was triggering it. The split-pane sidebar shows up when you have a non-magic mouse plugged in. So my answer for you could be: use an Apple's Magic Mouse.

However I'll tell you how to get rid of it, this will change the scroll bar behavior to show up only when scrolling:

• Launch System Preferences from the  Apple menu
• Click on General
• Look for 'Show scroll bars' and select the radiobox next to "When scrolling"

Solution 2

Shift-Command-D or the "Close Split Pane" item in the View menu should do it.

Comments

[Josh Mu]

Excellent! That did the trick.

[justinpage]

give this man an money, women, and guns.

[Jason R. Coombs]

I got this even with a magic mouse after a reboot. Turning the magic mouse off, waiting for disconnect, and turning it back on again caused the bar to clear.

[Weishi Z]

So Apple think you'll need to split and mirror the terminal if are using a non magic mouse?

[sds]

See also How do I disable Cmd-D in Terminal?.

[Jake]

still in 2021, this was helpful, started using a wireless mouse, and these bars appeared on my terminal windows.

[Carsen Daniel Yates]

yeah this is pretty annoying. I actually used to use KVM software to control my mac instead of actually plugging in a mouse to it. I stopped using the KVM software and plugged in my mouse/keyboard to the macbook for the first time and I kinda regret it (for a few reasons) :laughing: I still want to see my scrollbars all the time though so this is particularly annoying to me.

[Gary Bao 鲍昱彤]

I noticed this in my new mac but could not figure out how to disable it even comparing two mac books side by side. I googled for "split pane button" but no relevant results. So this is called the"split pane bar".