Did you know that you can have split screen on your terminal/console/command line? In this article i will show you how to split screen your terminal/console on lubuntu.
There are two ways if you want to have split screen on terminal/console, the first is using tmux which i already wrote an article about it, and the second is using terminator which i will explain here.
So basically, we need to install program either tmux or terminator in order to have split screen on the terminal/console, but for this tutorial we are going to use terminator.
How to install terminator
How to install terminator
To install terminator on lubuntu, simply open your terminal/console/command line (press CTRL + ALT + T) and then run this command:
sudo apt-get install terminatorkernelpanic@kernelpanic:~$ sudo apt-get install terminator
[sudo] password for kernelpanic:
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linux-image-4.2.0-23-generic linux-image-extra-4.2.0-16-generic
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python-vte
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python-gtk2-doc python-pyorbit-dbg
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Once installed, you can start using it by typing 'terminator' on the command line/console/terminal
terminatorYou can see that now the terminal/console have red label on top area, that means terminator is currently running.
To do the split screen, you can right click your mouse and then select 'Split Horizontally' or 'Split Vertically'.
Let's try 'Split Vertically', here's what it look like:
There you have it, split screen on terminal/console, you can do another split screen inside each screen, you can do multiple split screen basically.
But note that, terminator is actually a GUI program, so when you go full text mode, it won't work, terminator can only run under X environment.
If you want split screen while you are on full command line/ full text mode with no GUI, the best solution is to use tmux.
Tmux is little harder to work with, because you will need to remember all the keyboard shortcut, but once you know how to use it, you will find tmux is very powerful.
How to uninstall terminator
If you don't like terminator and you want to get rid of it, you can uninstall terminator by running this command:
sudo apt-get purge terminatorkernelpanic@kernelpanic:~$ sudo apt-get purge terminator
[sudo] password for kernelpanic:
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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-4.2.0-16 linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic linux-headers-4.2.0-23 linux-headers-4.2.0-23-generic linux-image-4.2.0-16-generic
linux-image-4.2.0-23-generic linux-image-extra-4.2.0-16-generic linux-image-extra-4.2.0-23-generic
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~ enjoy ~
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