Terminal with tmux style screen splitting?

Question

Moving from OS X, loving Ubuntu so far.

One thing I'm missing is an iTerm 2 like terminal emulator that allows for easy screen splitting. I could use tmux, but would like to be able to copy and paste between terminal windows and applications easily...which tends to be difficult in tmux.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I think you may want the other terminator actually ;)

There's http://software.jessies.org/terminator/ (gokcehan's answer) and http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html (install link above).

Which appears to be different projects, with a very similar purpose, confusingly enough. I think the "tenshu" one is the one you want for your purpose though, and it's readily available in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Answer 2

You can do it in screen the terminal multiplexer.

• To split vertically: ctrla then |.
• To split horizontally: ctrla then S (uppercase one).
• To unsplit: ctrla then Q (uppercase one).
• To switch from one to the other: ctrla then tab

EDIT, basic screen usage:

• New terminal: ctrla then c.
• Next terminal: ctrla then space.
• Previous terminal: ctrla then backspace.
• N'th terminal ctrla then [n]. (works for n∈{0,1…9})
• Switch between terminals using list: ctrla then " (useful when more than 10 terminals)
• Send ctrla to the underlying terminal ctrla then a.

You can also try dvtm+dtach:

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

Here is an article comparing them: http://chithanh.blogspot.com/2010/07/three-way-mini-shootout-between-gnu.html

Answer 3

I think you want the terminator.