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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.

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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"
Miguel
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    Excellent! That did the trick. – Josh Mu Mar 17 '14 at 02:26
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    give this man an money, women, and guns. – justinpage Jan 08 '15 at 19:14
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    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. – Jason R. Coombs May 26 '15 at 21:27
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    So Apple think you'll need to split and mirror the terminal if are using a non magic mouse? – Weishi Z Apr 07 '16 at 06:41
  • still in 2021, this was helpful, started using a wireless mouse, and these bars appeared on my terminal windows. – Jake Nov 23 '21 at 06:56
  • 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. – Carsen Daniel Yates Jan 20 '22 at 19:42
  • 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". – Gary Bao 鲍昱彤 Apr 08 '22 at 01:02
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Shift-Command-D or the "Close Split Pane" item in the View menu should do it.

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  • See also [How do I disable Cmd-D in Terminal?](http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/254222/60079). – sds Mar 28 '17 at 14:36