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title: How do I quieten a quadrant I am not using?
question: put a quadrant to sleep
area: quadrants
surface: desktop
audience: beginner
keywords: [sleep, sleep mode, quiet, dim, dimmed, greyed out, park a quadrant, hide a quadrant, too busy, too much on screen, distracting, eye icon, closed eye, click to wake, wake up, asleep, why is my quadrant dark, quadrant went dark, does sleep stop the agent]
related: [whats-inside-a-quadrant, what-is-a-quadrant, chat-with-your-agent]
updated: 2026-09-09
---

# How do I quieten a quadrant I am not using?

Click the **eye** in a quadrant's header and it goes to sleep: the terminal dims behind a calm panel showing the project's name and the last thing that agent finished. It is only a change of appearance. The agent keeps running underneath, so nothing is stopped, paused or lost. Click **asleep · click to wake** in the middle of the panel to bring it back.

## Before you start

- This is a desktop feature in Codus on Mac and Windows.
- Sleep applies to quadrants with a project folder set. An empty slot has nothing to dim.
- Sleep lasts for as long as codus stays open. Quitting and reopening starts everything awake again.

## Put one to sleep

1. Find the **eye** button in the quadrant's header, to the right of the **web** button.
2. Click it. The quadrant dims and shows its name, the last thing the agent finished, and **asleep · click to wake**.
3. The eye turns amber and closes, so you can tell at a glance which quadrants are parked.

To wake it, click **asleep · click to wake**, or click the eye again. Clicking anywhere else on the dimmed panel does nothing, on purpose, so a stray click cannot wake a quadrant you deliberately parked.

## Quadrants that sleep on their own

A quadrant also goes to sleep by itself after fifteen minutes of you not touching it, so a busy grid settles down while you concentrate on one project. Switching to another app counts as not touching it, so the whole grid quietens while you are away.

Two things stop that happening:

- **A working agent never sleeps.** The fifteen minutes only start counting once its run finishes, so a job that takes forty minutes is safe from beginning to end.
- **A quadrant waiting on you never sleeps.** If an agent has asked you something, it stays awake and visible until you answer.

A quadrant also parks itself right after an agent finishes a job, unless you are looking at that quadrant when it happens.

## Does sleep stop my agent?

No. Sleep changes what you see and nothing else. The agent keeps working, its terminal keeps its full history, background terminals keep running, and any job in progress carries on to the end. Waking a quadrant shows you exactly where things got to.

## How do I know it worked?

- The quadrant dims and shows its name in large text with the last completed job underneath.
- The eye in that quadrant's header is closed and amber.
- After waking: the terminal comes straight back with all its output, and the eye opens again.

## Common problems

**A quadrant went dark on its own and I did not do it.** It has been idle for fifteen minutes, or its agent just finished a job while you were looking elsewhere. Click **asleep · click to wake**.

**Clicking the dark panel does not wake it.** Only the **asleep · click to wake** text wakes it, along with the eye in the header. That is deliberate, so you cannot undo it by accident.

**I want to know what a sleeping quadrant was doing.** The line under the project name is the last thing that agent finished there, so a parked quadrant still tells you where it got to.

**A quadrant slept while its agent was still working.** That should not happen. Update codus, as older versions could get this wrong when an agent went quiet for a long stretch mid-job.