I use multiple frames on tty just as I do with a  window system. Switching
among frames works the same and tab-bar works the same. Try it like this.
Start your emacs, C-x 5 n, M-x select-frame-by-name and you'll see two
frames.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 10:16 AM martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

>  > AFAICT from the Elisp Info docs, one is currently free to change the
>  > parent-frame as one sees fit. That is, one can make a child a root
>  > frame, a root frame a child, or change the parent of a child to another
>  > root.
>  >
>  > I'm currently inclined to disallow parent-frame changes on ttys
>  > entirely, unless it is used for something. Couldn't find something
>  > today, but maybe something is a package outside Emacs' repo, or I'm just
>  > ont looking for the right thing.
>
> I'm not aware of people using multiple frames on TTYs and I have no idea
> whether child frames out there are even intended to be reparented.
>
> Reparenting is useful because you can set up one child frame for some
> special purpose, make it invisible when you don't need it, and move it
> to another frame and make it visible there whenever you want to.  On
> GUIs, this approach has the advantage that you can avoid the (at least
> here) costly process of setting up frame faces every time anew.  Emacs
> tooltips do that by default and I recall that showing a tooltip every
> time incurred two entire GC cycles here.
>
> martin
>
>