Multiple terminal windows

Question

I develop code. I use terminal alot. I use many terminal windows alot. I hate how tabs look.

Any useful applications that allow for multiple terminal use, and streamline my development. allow me to keep multiple terminals in focus?

Please and thank you.

Answer 1

Try Terminator. It allows you to split the terminal window (You can also have tabs and separate windows).

You can install terminator from your current terminal with this command:

sudo apt-get install terminator

Or you can search 'terminator' in Ubuntu Software Centre (or Synaptic).

Answer 2

Both screen and byobu (which is just screen with some neat extras) allow you to use multiple windows within one session. For me they're must-have applications when I'm connecting via SSH.

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Screen for more information on how to use screen.

Answer 3

I don't see what the problem is. I just opened 5 terminal windows at the same time, no problem, by hitting ctrl+shift+n with the terminal open, or going to File > Open Terminal. I haven't done anything that would affect the terminal... This is pretty much right out of the box. Are you using 10.4?

Answer 4

I also (in addition to terminator) use Guake sudo apt-get install guake. It is a quake-like console tool which is basically a tabbed terminal except it pops out when you press F12 and closes when you lose focus (if you configure it that way). I love it.

Answer 5

Yakuake is like Guake + Terminator: you get multiple tabs and split screen terminals, all in a quake drop-down. But it's a KDE application so if you're using Gnome, I would say Guake.

Answer 6

Just some alternatives out there:

Try a different terminal. I use urxvt-unicode (package name) and it has a much better tab layout/look imo.

Here's a page with a sample screenshot of the tabs in the upper corner: http://battlemidget.blogspot.com/2007/10/urxvt-fvwm.html

Secondly, you might consider a tiling window manager at some point. I'm a huge fan. You don't have to worry about laying out all those different terminals and just add/remove as you need them. I'm using AwesomeWM, but Xmodad is another really good one.

Quick youtube of someone using it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FUkmMeU3bU&feature=related

Answer 7

If what you want is to have many ssh/telnet connections to some machines, please, ty PAC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacmanager/) link text