The Interface

The Interface

Getman has one window that adapts to your screen width. This page explains the panels and how the layout changes.

The main areas

• Tab bar (top) — one tab per open request, grouped into Panels you switch between via the panel selector at its left. Click + for a new tab, drag to reorder, click the × (or Cmd/Ctrl+W) to close. A dirty marker shows unsaved changes.
• Environment selector (top-right) — pick the active Environments and Variables (or "No Environment").
• Side menu (left, on wide screens) — two tabs: COLLECTIONS and HISTORY. Its header has NEW FOLDER and SETTINGS buttons and the GETMAN title.
• Request panel — the URL bar plus the PARAMS / HEADERS / BODY / AUTH / RULES tabs.
• Response panel — status/time/size, plus the BODY / HEADERS / COOKIES / TESTS tabs.

Responsive layouts

The window reflows based on width:

Width	Navigation	Request & response	Tabs
> 900px (desktop)	Persistent side menu, resizable	Side-by-side, draggable split	Scrolling tab bar (drag to reorder)
701–900px (tablet)	Hamburger drawer	Side-by-side	Scrolling tab bar
501–700px (phone)	Hamburger drawer	Unified panel: request & response collapse into one set of tabs	Scrolling tab bar
≤ 500px (compact)	Hamburger drawer	Unified panel	Tab chip that opens a bottom-sheet switcher

On narrow widths, dialogs (Settings, Environments, etc.) open full-screen instead of as centered modals.

Resizing panes (desktop)

• Side menu width — drag the splitter between the side menu and the content. It's clamped to 200–600px and remembered across restarts.
• Request / response split — drag the splitter between the two panels. The ratio is clamped so neither pane collapses, and it's saved.

After you let go, the new size is persisted to Settings.

Tabs in depth

• Each tab keeps its own request and its last response.
• Tabs persist across restarts (saved a few seconds after you stop editing, and on close). After a restart no tab is left in a "sending" state.
• Up to 5 tab views stay "live" in memory at once for instant switching; older ones are rebuilt on demand without losing saved state.
• A tab can be linked to a saved collection request (saving updates that request) or unlinked (a scratch tab — e.g. one opened from History or a saved Collections).
• Hover a tab (desktop) for a moment and a tooltip appears showing the tab's name on top and, beneath it in a lighter color, its full URL — handy when several tabs share a similar title or the title is truncated.

Tab actions

Right-click a tab (desktop) for: close, close others, close to the right, duplicate, copy URL, and move to panel (see Panels). Keyboard: see Keyboard Shortcuts.

Themes

Three themes ship in the box (Brutalist, Editorial, Arcane Quest), each with light/dark and a compact density mode. Switch them in Settings or the Command Palette. See Themes and Appearance.