How about customizing tmux a bit.Key combination. Splitting a terminal here is much easier
predrag@oko$ more .tmux.conf
setw -g window-status-current-attr underscore
# tmux command mode
set-option -g prefix C-a
# split windows like vi
# vi's definition of a horizontal/vertical split is reversed from tmux's
bind s split-window -v
bind v split-window -h
# copy and paste vi style
unbind [
bind Escape copy-mode
unbind ]
bind p paste-buffer
bind-key -t vi-copy 'v' begin-selection
bind-key -t vi-copy 'y' copy-selection
# move around panes with hjkl, as one would in vi after pressing ctrl-w
bind h select-pane -L
bind j select-pane -D
bind k select-pane -U
bind l select-pane -R
# resize panes like vi by "5"
bind < resize-pane -L 5
bind > resize-pane -R 5
bind - resize-pane -D 5
bind + resize-pane -U 5
# bind : to command-prompt like vi
# this is the default in tmux already
bind : command-prompt
set -g status-keys vi
# vi-style controls for copy mode
setw -g mode-keys vi
bind / neww 'exec top' # new command in the new window
bind m new 's-nail -A gmail' # new command in the open pan terminator -l layout-name terminator -b -l layout-name
As I said however it's only a matter of preference. Use whatever makes things easier for you. Comparing sysutils/tmux and x11/terminator is like comparing frogs and grandmothers. sysutils/tmux is virtual console multiplexer which was develop by an OpenBSD guy (he became OpenBSD developer after starting tmux) out of frustration with code quality and bugs of infamous sysutils/screen. One typically uses sysutils/tmux inside an ssh session to lunch multiple consoles on the remote server without need for multiple ssh connection. It allows you to detach session and reattach it later. Managing console via panes tiling window management style is just an integral feature. sysutils/dvtm is just a tiling window manager for console. Nothing more nothing else. It would allow you to have multiple consoles on the remote machine but can't do any other useful stuff like detaching. x11/terminator Python is just terminal program like a Gnome shell for example. It uses actually the same bloat-ware like Gnome shell. x11/terminator might be an eye candy but it has no practical use. There were many discussion of alternative shells (to standard xterm) on this forum. While I myself don't use anything else but xterm there are definitely some interesting alternatives in particularly for people needing non ASCII characters.Admittedly I have little experience with x11/terminator. Another reason I prefer sysutils/tmux is x11/xorg is not required to use it. Many times I am stuck in an actual console for various reasons and each time I give thanks to the tmux developers and port maintainer(s)
I wasn't aware of sysutils/dvtm however. I'll have to check it out as it sounds interesting even if just to play with. Thanks for mentioning that. I am also using heavy sysutils/tmux user. sysutils/dvtm was mentioned firstly in this thread by user uzsolt. I played with it years ago as with most suckless.org software. sysutils/dvtm is unnecessary if you are using sysutils/tmux and since the key bindings are not the same it is just more waist of time to learn. Between suckless software is for most part actually quite buggy. The only thing I still use some time is IRC client irc/sic.Well yes, I was merely mentioning the fact that I prefer to use sysutils/tmux for managing panes as opposed to an X terminal emulator with the feature built in as it works in and outside of X. I also make use of tmux for many other reasons but didn't mention them as I didn't see them as relevant to the thread.
tmux taking up a whole screen. It has a bottom bar that can be customized. terminator. I can see that being nice though I'd have to play around with its background. (I put it on a Linux distribution that didn't give me a config file.) I could see running that with a floating window manager like openbox to have one big tiling-like terminal if I weren't already used to the others that have been mentioned here. (I generally use dwmon both single and multi head setups. If you're not familiar with tiling window managers, it gives an effect similar to that of a few splits in terminator.
I left you a config file with vi bindings including resizing panes incrementally and continuously. You have to read posts on your own theadToday I give another try to tmux. In fact is harded but I like it more
Any help how can I resize my split panel?
