Terminator - the cool terminal

[Xianath]

Well, try tailing several log files, and at the same time have a shell open issuing commands (for example, debugging samba errors..)

tail -n 0 -f <file1> <file2> <file3> ... <fileN> | tee debugsession | less

[Legendary_Bibo]

For this Guake terminal, do you just have to hit the tilda key and it comes down and you can use whatever?

[slackthumbz]

Maybe I'm just not getting the point, what does terminator do that I can't do in screen? Also screen gives me a persistent session between logins and uses fewer system resources and it'll run in any terminal you could possibly want to use...

[digitalcitizenx]

Maybe I'm just not getting the point, what does terminator do that I can't do in screen? Also screen gives me a persistent session between logins and uses fewer system resources and it'll run in any terminal you could possibly want to use...

OK - what WM? - what is the dock on top? - what is the icon style name?

please

;^)

[slackthumbz]

OK - what WM? - what is the dock on top? - what is the icon style name?

please

;^)

the WM is compiz-fusion in gnome, I've just removed the gnome-panel altogether (requires a little gconf-editor jiggery pokery), the dock is Avant Window Navigator and the icon theme is 'Any Color You Like' from gnome-look.org

[Zorgoth]

+1 for screen

I just use guake, gnome-terminal, and screen mostly.

Guake is great for running a command line process transparent over your whole screen so you can watch its progress while at the same time being bored and also looking at your sudoku or whatever.

Terminator does look moderately cool, and I will look into it though as a possible replacement/addition to gnome-terminal

The main advantages over screen would be that
a) you can click to change frames, which is moderately useful, although I normally use the keyboard to do that anyway
b) you don't clutter up your screen sessions with tasks that don't need screen
c) you can scroll with the scroll wheel/touchpad

[Lucradia]

Works well with Lucid, also.

Lol, almost 6 month bump.

[Zorgoth]

OK, ten minutes of experimentation and I am definitely using terminator. It does look like it is a little bit heavier than gnome-terminal, but it seems plenty fast so far.

[doorknob60]

There's two terminals called terminator, here's the other: http://software.jessies.org/terminator/

I thought they were the same for a while...then I realized one was python and one was Java Not sure which one is better...

[aikikode]

I agree - Terminator is a very handy tool in Gnome, it's a must-have when it comes to screen splitting (also I must admit KDE konsole also has such feature).

To me it has only one drawback: the style of tabs is not customizable and tab height is too much. But as it is said on its development forum they use GTK theme and not going to override it.