Q&A : Unload whole wokspace ?

[perkinspprt-nvim]

My Laptop cannot really cope with several work spaces so I was wondering if there was a convenient way of unloading all tabs in a given workspace. If there are no native options, How hard would it be to implement ?

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @perkinspprt-nvim! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the desktop team.

There isn't a native option in Zen to unload all tabs in a workspace at once—each tab must be unloaded manually, and there are no shortcuts or context menu actions for bulk unloading in the sidebar or workspace menu [source]. 'Unloading' in this context means freeing up system resources by suspending the content of open tabs without closing them, which can help with memory usage.

Some users use mods like SuperPins to manually unload tabs, but there’s no mod or built-in feature for unloading all tabs in a workspace at once [source]. There’s also community interest in adding a feature similar to the "Discard group" option in Simple Tab Groups for Firefox, but it hasn’t been implemented yet [source].

Implementing this would likely involve adding a new action to the workspace menu that iterates through all tabs in the selected workspace and triggers the unload operation for each, while respecting pinned/essential tab rules and avoiding tabs with active media. There’s interest in developing this as a mod, which could be a practical starting point [source].

For now, the only workaround is to manually unload tabs via right-click or keyboard shortcuts for supported tab types [source].

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