<p></p>
<p>For disabling the other tabs, you can edit these settings under <code>Edit->Preferences->Various</code>:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-diff"><pre><span class="pl-md">--- msgwin1/geany.conf      2020-04-30 23:43:49.877942591 -0700</span>
<span class="pl-mi1">+++ msgwin2/geany.conf     2020-04-30 23:45:33.495469083 -0700</span>
<span class="pl-mdr">@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@</span>
 compiler_tab_autoscroll=true
 statusbar_template=line: %l / %L        col: %c         sel: %s         %w      %t      %mmode: %M      encoding: %e      filetype: %f      scope: %S
 new_document_after_close=false
<span class="pl-md"><span class="pl-md">-</span>msgwin_status_visible=true</span>
<span class="pl-md"><span class="pl-md">-</span>msgwin_compiler_visible=true</span>
<span class="pl-md"><span class="pl-md">-</span>msgwin_messages_visible=true</span>
<span class="pl-md"><span class="pl-md">-</span>msgwin_scribble_visible=true</span>
<span class="pl-mi1"><span class="pl-mi1">+</span>msgwin_status_visible=false</span>
<span class="pl-mi1"><span class="pl-mi1">+</span>msgwin_compiler_visible=false</span>
<span class="pl-mi1"><span class="pl-mi1">+</span>msgwin_messages_visible=false</span>
<span class="pl-mi1"><span class="pl-mi1">+</span>msgwin_scribble_visible=false</span>
 documents_show_paths=true
 sidebar_page=0
 pref_main_load_session=true</pre></div>
<p>For hiding the message window tabs altogether (ie. to hide the lone tab for "Terminal") you could either patch Geany to add an option, make a plugin to do it, or you could use CSS to somewhat okay effect - it would be a lot easier if <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="596244912" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2469" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/pull/2469/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/2469">#2469</a> gets merged - probably something like:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-css"><pre><span class="pl-e">#notebook_info</span> tab {
  <span class="pl-c1"><span class="pl-c1">padding</span></span>: <span class="pl-c1">0<span class="pl-k">px</span></span>;
  <span class="pl-c1"><span class="pl-c1">font-size</span></span>: <span class="pl-c1">0.1<span class="pl-k">em</span></span>;
  <span class="pl-c1"><span class="pl-c1">border-width</span></span>: <span class="pl-c1">0<span class="pl-k">px</span></span>;
}</pre></div>
<p>I don't think GTK+ CSS has a thing like <code>display: none;</code> or changing the size like real CSS, but above makes the tabs pretty small here. Someone with more GTK+ theming skills could probably find a better way.</p>
<p>I doubt anyone would oppose a pull request to add a preference to hide message window tabs entirely.</p>

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