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Command palette usability problems

  • iTerm2 version: 3.6.2
  • OS version: macOS 26.0

I've not attached a plist file here as I don't think it would give you any extra context to this specific problem.

Before the introduction of the command palette, I used the Cmd+Shift+O shortcut probably tens of times every day to do one job - open my quad-up arrangement in a new tab. With the command palette, I've sort of lost this ability as a very important part of the information displayed is now not displayed...

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There are now two items called QuadUp in the list, one which opens a new quad-up window, and one which opens a new quad-up tab, but I can no longer tell which is which. With the old behaviour I could just type Q in the filter, press down arrow and return, and I'd have a new quad-up tab. Just filtering on Q now gives me a lot of things that I definitely don't want, and I can no longer tell which thing I do want.

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(Incidentally, this screenshot shows a display bug too, which I think happened when I deleted all the text in the filter box but now I can't get rid of).

I thought I might be able to solve this problem by setting a custom keyboard shortcut in macOS System Settings, but because the menu item name is the same for both restoring in a new window, and restoring in a new tab, it only applies it to the first one...

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And there doesn't seem to be a way to set a keyboard shortcut to open a new tab with my quad-up arrangement in iTerm's keyboard shortcuts system.

Is there a way to turn off the new command palette functionality and restore what we had before? Or failing that, a way to open a new tab with my arrangement via a keyboard shortcut?