**Context**: *GNU Emacs 29.0.60 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2023-03-30, Development version 4508a024e818 on emacs-29 branch; build date 2023-03-30. Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa) Cinnamon.* 

After detecting problems with usage of the tab-bar (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/76593/bug-or-feature-click-on-tab-does-not-give-the-buffer-with-the-shown-buffer-name) I have switched to usage of the tab-line, but also here I run into a problem: 

If the window is showing one of the `*xxx*` buffers like for example `*scratch*` the tab-line disappears and I am no more able to get back by clicking a tab on a tab-line to the other buffers just because the tab-line is no more there. 

I have already set via Custom the tab-line-exclude-modes to nil in the `.emacs` file: 

```
(custom-set-variables
  '(tab-line-exclude-modes nil))
```

but this does not change the described behavior. 

What am I missing to achieve a stable tab-line keeping to stay there for any buffer I am viewing in the window?

P.S. The easiest work-around this problem is sure just not to view any of the buffers which make the tab-line disappear ... or just not to use the tab-line or tab-bar at all switching the buffers by clicking on the buffer toggle area in the modeline. 

Am I alone here with having problems with the tab-bar and tab-line? 

How do you switch to a specific buffer out of a huge number of buffers?