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I've used gnome-terminal, sakura and now I'm using terminator: http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/p/introduction.html http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/p

I've used gnome-terminal, sakura and now I'm using terminator: http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/p/introduction.html http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/p/introduction.html The main difference with the other terminal emulators is that I can easily do horizontal and vertical window splits. Many use screen or tmux for that but I find them too limiting, especially in their scrollback implementation.

staz 12y ago
Gnome-terminal, rox-term, sakura and terminator are actually all based on the same terminal emulation backend: libvte
gcb0 12y ago
i always found screen splitting in the terminal when you have a graphical window manager kinda of silly.
- kragniz 12y ago
  It means you can do screen splitting on a remote machine and still have the same workflow as your local sessions, which is pretty nice.
- glandium 12y ago
  I'd love it if there would be graphical frontend to tmux or screen. Something that would look very much like a terminal emulator, with tabs and splits, but backed by screen or tmux, whereby each tab or split window would be a tmux or screen window. And the awesome part is that when you're elsewhere, you could ssh in and attach to that tmux or screen session.
  - lmz 12y ago
    You can do that on OS X with iTerm2 e.g.: http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/03/11/rocking-with-tmux-tmuxinator-and-iterm2-for-rails-development/ http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/03/11/rocking-with-tmux...
  - chriswarbo 12y ago
    You can send commands to a running tmux session, eg. http://superuser.com/questions/492266/run-or-send-a-command-to-a-tmux-pane-in-a-running-tmux-session http://superuser.com/questions/492266/run-or-send-a-command-... How far you take it depends on what you'd want out of such a tool. Simple "New Shell", "Close Shell" buttons would be easy; overlaying draggable partitions would be more effort, and less elegant, but still do-able.
- vog 12y ago
  This is especially true when using a tiling window manager such as wmii. In that case you don't even have to rearrange windows - each new window automatically takes part in the split. And you can combine terminal sessions, browser, etc. as you wish. I find this a lot easier to use than screen/tmux.
- flavor8 12y ago
  I tend to have terminator fullscreened (no decorations) on one desktop, and switch desktops far more often than I switch windows.
- to3m 12y ago
  After using emacs a lot I've ended up preferring screen splitting. I used to be happy just running multiple xterms, but I've been using Linux again recently and found myself a bit unhappy with that. I think due to advancing age I'm just finding it hard to cope with lots of windows. Keeping on top of them is a pain.

staz 12y ago

Gnome-terminal, rox-term, sakura and terminator are actually all based on the same terminal emulation backend: libvte

gcb0 12y ago

i always found screen splitting in the terminal when you have a graphical window manager kinda of silly.

kragniz 12y ago
It means you can do screen splitting on a remote machine and still have the same workflow as your local sessions, which is pretty nice.
glandium 12y ago
I'd love it if there would be graphical frontend to tmux or screen. Something that would look very much like a terminal emulator, with tabs and splits, but backed by screen or tmux, whereby each tab or split window would be a tmux or screen window. And the awesome part is that when you're elsewhere, you could ssh in and attach to that tmux or screen session.
- lmz 12y ago
  You can do that on OS X with iTerm2 e.g.: http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/03/11/rocking-with-tmux-tmuxinator-and-iterm2-for-rails-development/ http://www.railsonmaui.com/blog/2014/03/11/rocking-with-tmux...
- chriswarbo 12y ago
  You can send commands to a running tmux session, eg. http://superuser.com/questions/492266/run-or-send-a-command-to-a-tmux-pane-in-a-running-tmux-session http://superuser.com/questions/492266/run-or-send-a-command-... How far you take it depends on what you'd want out of such a tool. Simple "New Shell", "Close Shell" buttons would be easy; overlaying draggable partitions would be more effort, and less elegant, but still do-able.
vog 12y ago
This is especially true when using a tiling window manager such as wmii. In that case you don't even have to rearrange windows - each new window automatically takes part in the split. And you can combine terminal sessions, browser, etc. as you wish. I find this a lot easier to use than screen/tmux.
flavor8 12y ago
I tend to have terminator fullscreened (no decorations) on one desktop, and switch desktops far more often than I switch windows.
to3m 12y ago
After using emacs a lot I've ended up preferring screen splitting. I used to be happy just running multiple xterms, but I've been using Linux again recently and found myself a bit unhappy with that. I think due to advancing age I'm just finding it hard to cope with lots of windows. Keeping on top of them is a pain.