I was pleased with Terminator, but then I found tmux. But I’ve never been brave enough to give screen the charge over my terminal windows and panes. I was using it to run tasks in the background and to avoid problems caused by losing connection with remote machine. Of course, there is also the screen tool, but it has always been somehow mysterious to me.

Its important disadvantage is that Terminator is a GUI tool, so it won’t work if an X server is not at hand. It also allows to keep multiple tabs opened in case splitting one window is not enough. It’s easy to install and it does exactly what it’s supposed to do - it can split terminal windows both horizontally and vertically, according to user’s requirements. Terminator seemed to me the right tool to do the job.

For example, we may want to execute some code or tests and at the same time watch over log files by using tail. Even though having many windows (represented by tabs in Linux terminal-handling tools or by many Putty instances) can solve this problem, it is often desired to keep things in sight at the same time. This is why I pay attention to things like shell and GNU tools, because knowing them well is often more than a half of job done.Īfterwards, I found out that having just one terminal window is not enough. It was long time ago when I realized that the major part of my work is being done in the Linux terminal. My eBook: “Memoirs of a Software Team Leader”

Tmux Tutorial - Split Terminal Windows Easily

Mac split windows horizontally