Enhance your X11 terminal console
I tend to have multiple ssh sessions open at once to my multiple *nix machines. However despite all the best attempts to keep some order all the windows tend to clutter up the desktop. Gnome terminal goes some way to easing that pain by supporting tabs but it would be even nicer if I could have multiple consoles all in a single window.
After a bit of digging I came across Gnome Terminator.
It’s a rather nice simple terminal console app but where it wins for me is that if you right click inside the terminal you can split the terminal horizontally or vertically or any combination of both. If you see my screenshot below it will give you a good idea. And yes almost all my machines are names after characters in Stargate!
Chances are that there are already pre-built binaries available for your distribution. At least there is for my Ubuntu workstation so it was a simple
sudo apt-get install terminator
It’s certainly worth checking out if like me you like to have lots of console windows open.
Terminator in action
