Near Borderless Windows & Infinite Scrollbackĭo you like the paper thin divider lines in the header image for this article? If so, let us set them up in the same way on your workstation. Go ahead and click the Preferences button. In the same menu, we also see a Preferences button and clicking this will lead you to the configuration window. Next click Split Vertically again, and you will now have four windows! Repeat the same for the bottom half of the screen by right-clicking in the black space below the horizontal divider line. With the horizontal divider line now visible in the middle of the window, right-click in the black space of the top section. You can have as many windows as you like, as long as you are comfortable with smaller and smaller windows, depending on how many windows splits you add.įor example, to make four equal squared windows, one could first right-click in the black space of the terminal, and select Split Horizontally. Split Horizontally and Split Vertically are two options available to us to divide our Terminal window into 2, or more windows! Have another look at the header image of this article, and you can see how we can split, and split again. (This image was captured by taking a photo of the screen, as Terminator’s built-in right-click menu’s do not allow for capturing with a screen capture tool.) However that dynamic immediately changes once you right-click the black background and review the menu represented: When you open Terminator for the first time, it will feel just like any other terminal client software, though it has an interesting red-colored header bar, much in line with the red Terminator logo.
Sudo yum install terminator First Impressions To install htop and iotop on your RedHat/Yum based Linux distribution (Like RedHat and Fedora), do: To install Terminator on your Debian/Apt based Linux distribution (Like Ubuntu and Mint), do:
Even the terminal client software included with your operating system will let you do this, but Terminator has a special GUI format unlike other one-at-the-time or tab-based terminal client softwares. Terminator is a graphical Linux software program, running seamlessly under Python 3, which lets system administrators and other users use multiple terminal (shell) windows at the same time. A terminal multiplexer allows you to run one-to-many terminal sessions from within one or more windows, in an organized way. Welcome to Terminator, an interesting name for the world’s most advanced and fully featured terminal multiplexer.