| Terminator runs multiple GNOME terminals in the same window | ||
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Provided by yangyi at 2008-05-15 18:28:46 | ||
In a sense, the desktop is the best thing that ever happened to the command line. Because a virtual terminal runs in a graphical environment, it boasts all sorts of enhancements that the unadorned shell lacks -- everything from multiple tabs to easy selection of display fonts and background and foreground colors. Perhaps the resulting power and convenience explains why, even at a time when the emphasis is on giving every application a graphical interface -- no matter how inappropriately -- people still write useful utilities for virtual terminals. A good example is Terminator, a program designed to perform one simple function: displaying multiple instances of the GNOME terminal within the same window. You do not need to be a hardcore developer to understand the usefulness of this function. Consider the default options for displaying a man file while deciding how to run a program: Either you use a tab or else open another terminal. Neither option is completely satisfactory. With a tab, you have to click back and forth between the two terminals. With a second terminal, you can view both at the same time, but you generally have to pause to rearrange the terminal windows. In both cases, the more terminals you use, the more you compound the problem. By contrast, by opening new terminals within the same window, you have no trouble viewing them together. Moreover, if you have multiple windows open and you move away from the terminals to do something else, you only have to find one window, not two. Currently at version 0.8.1-1, Terminator is available in a tar file from the project site, and as a native package from an increasing number of distributions, including Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Its dependencies are limited to python, python-central, python-gnome2, and python-vte, all of which except the last are standard packages you may already have installed. The basic command to start Terminator is the same as its name, and you can modify the application's behavior with a few basic commands. Adding the ...... Please access the below link to view the full content. Original link: http://www.linux.com/feature/134... |